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This is one of the sweetest things I've ever seen! Check out this adorable opossum named Maggie who recently received some new wheels from a company called Walkin' Pets, which creates mobility device… [+1446 chars]
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Alexis Nikole Nelson Alexis Nikole Nelson/Alexis Nikole Nelson One way that people connect with their heritage is through food, and for some that means eating wild food. While there isn't an organi… [+4459 chars]
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For Sanaa Shah's family, summer in Australia is worlds apart from the carefree coastal lifestyle depicted in travel brochures. "We don't have a close-by beach to go to," the 20-year-old says. "We … [+7888 chars]
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Modern medicine has extended our lives and reduced suffering in all kinds of ways. Many of the impactful interventions we have available today have been around for a long time, like antibiotics, most… [+261 chars]
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2023 has been a year defined by artificial intelligence innovation, with OpenAI at the helm. An AI apocalypse didnt collapse society into chaos, but everyone in Silicon Valley did try to add some sor… [+1523 chars]
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We miss the days when computers looked like computers. You know, blinking lights, rows of switches, and cryptic displays. [Phil Tipping] must miss those days too since he built PlasMa, a “mini-mainfr… [+1426 chars]
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Fox Searchlight 2024 is right around the corner, so we only have a few more days to celebrate the highs and lows of 2023’s film slate. Fortunately, this year has given movie fans plenty to talk abou… [+8834 chars]
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Mark Kistler aka Commander Mark stars in a new documentary The Secret Cities of Mark Kistler, that tells the story of Kistler's legacy and how it all happened. Corgan Pictures Commander Mark had bi… [+5053 chars]
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The Endangered Species Act is 50 years old Thursday. In recent years, the act has become a pawn in partisan battles over federal regulatory powers, with opponents arguing the law infringes upon priva… [+8003 chars]
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Zack Snyder knows what hes doing. Whether its using his considerable popularity to his artistic benefit, or focusing on every single piece of minutia in a movie, the filmmaker is completely aware. So… [+8289 chars]
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Humans have just experienced what will go down as the hottest year in recorded history -- so far -- as the planet experienced heating at an unprecedented pace. Throughout 2023, records for the warme… [+8581 chars]
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Director Zack Snyder is famous not just for his films, but also for his passionate fanbase. And while most of Snyders fans vocalize that on social media, one of the biggest did so via traditonal medi… [+1829 chars]
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Arno J. Mayer, à Paris, en février 2002. FRÉDÉRIC SOULOY / GAMMA Pour Arno Joseph Mayer, lhistoire était la continuation de la politique par dautres moyens. Lhistorien, professeur à Princeton entre … [+2923 chars]
Read MoreThe venture capitalist Kleida Martiro.Courtesy of Kleida Martiro <ul> <li>Kleida Martiro climbed the ranks from associate to Glasswing Ventures partner in four years.</li> <li>She's been investing i… [+4185 chars]
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What’s the most thrilling part of rocketry? Well, the liftoff, naturally. But what about the sweet anticipation in those tense moments leading up to liftoff? In other words, the countdown. Where did … [+3450 chars]
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The science is clear: from a health perspective, the less you drink, the better. But alcohol is a cornerstone of nearly every personal and professional gathering, so you may not always want to abstai… [+6581 chars]
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The case study involved just one patient: a 20-year-old woman with severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). But the studys results were so dramatic that they appeared in 2021 in the New England Jou… [+11116 chars]
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Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub (center) stands with other executives from the oil giant, along with partner companies, at the groundbreaking celebration for the Stratos direct air capture plant. Jordan… [+15093 chars]
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Es imposible que los entusiastas de la física de partículas no nos emocionemos con lo que tiene entre manos ahora mismo el CERN (Organización Europea para la Investigación Nuclear). Los físicos y los… [+4003 chars]
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7 There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one scienc… [+5023 chars]
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As in most years, much of the media focus in 2023 was on the myriad crises people all over the world faced, from horrific wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East to devastating natural disasters (… [+12941 chars]
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This is the great bewilderment: that out of a cold austere cosmos arose the roiling wonder of life, from the tiniest archaeans that have “confronted sulfuric boiling black sea bottoms and stayed” to … [+7090 chars]
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7 Every so often, you live through a year that you know you're going to remember. Sometimes it's because of a personal milestone. Other times it's because of noteworthy events that affected all of u… [+3160 chars]
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Even if you believe, as some do, that the world has moved from Peak TV to Trough TV, there are still more shows released in any given year than any one person could consume (trust us, we tried). Betw… [+9597 chars]
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To freelance like this means staying out late to trap, keeping the captured cats overnight, delivering them to a clinic in the morning, picking them up in the afternoon, housing them for a second nig… [+6564 chars]
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This 10.0 mm (0.4 inches) monster snowflake holds the Guinness record for the largest snow crystal. A microscope was used to photograph it in four quadrants, which were later digitally recombined. K… [+5867 chars]
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"Of course AI is a bubble," argues tech activist/blogger/science fiction author Cory Doctorow.The real question is what happens when it bursts? Doctorow examines history — the "irrational exuberance… [+3104 chars]
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Approaching his 86th birthday, Donald Knuth — Stanford's beloved computer science guru — honored what's become a long-standing tradition. He gave a December "Christmas lecture" that's also streamed o… [+959 chars]
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In September, Elon Musks brain-implant company Neuralink announced the much-anticipated news that it would start recruiting volunteers for a clinical trial to test its device. Known as a brain-comput… [+2333 chars]
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The number of climate activists referred to the Prevent anti-terrorism programme has increased following the emergence of disruptive environmental protests, the BBC has learned. The UK government's … [+7881 chars]
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Exemptions for immunizations required in school are on the rise in the U.S., leading to concerns among medical experts that diseases like measles could soon make a comeback in many states. In Novemb… [+8982 chars]
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Like every year, I used a lot of tech in 2023, including the latest phones, tablets, audio gear, smart home tech, and accessories — So. Many. Accessories. And because I don't know any better, I bough… [+9997 chars]
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Yes, thats Uranus. The giant icy orb looks more like an agatized dinosaur egg than a planet in this new image from the Webb Space Telescope. Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, still holds plent… [+299 chars]
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LG South Korean electronics giant LG has announced a handful of new educational, personal growth, and lifestyle apps and content that will run on its webOS-based smart TVs. In the lead-up to CES 20… [+3218 chars]
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Replay: New Shepard Mission NS-24 Webcast Blue Origin sent its suborbital rocket to the edge of space and back in its first flight since a 2022 midair explosion grounded its operation. The single-s… [+2486 chars]
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Scientists have discovered what may have prompted early human ancestors to begin developing speech and language. As the landscape in which ancient hominids lived transformed from dense forests to op… [+3551 chars]
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The 440 lawsuits brought against the makers of Tylenol and generic acetaminophen do not have "admissible evidence" to show that prenatal exposure to the medication can lead to autism or ADHD, a feder… [+3022 chars]
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Great childrens books are works of philosophy in disguise — gifts of wonder and consolation not only for the very young, but for the eternal child in each of us, conferring upon us what Maurice Senda… [+24997 chars]
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La IA es realmente buena a la hora de identificar caras, objetos o animales. Esas prestaciones se han aprovechado tradicionalmente en ámbitos cotidianos como la gestión de fotos con Google Fotos o Ap… [+3637 chars]
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If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.2023 delivered us the ultimate gamers dilemma: smooch or spaceship? At its core, this might be th… [+9559 chars]
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One of the most important people in Israel right now is a 22-year-old military press officer. In recent weeks, Masha Michelson has become the face of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on social media. … [+27570 chars]
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As health reporters and editors, we know what's good for us. But that doesn't mean we always do it. This year, each of us took at least one thing we've learned covering health and applied it to our… [+6888 chars]
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In her 2014 NBC News special A Leap of Faith, Meredith Vieira touted the potential of renowned Italian thoracic surgeon Paolo Macchiarini's work as follows: "Imagine a world where any injured or dise… [+6006 chars]
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With the end of the year upon us, so is the holiday travel rush. AAA estimates 115 million Americans will head 50 miles or more from home over the festive period, making it the second busiest end-of-… [+4832 chars]
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Data retention is a funny thing. Atmel will gladly tell you that the flash memory in an ATmega32A will retain its data for 100 years at room temperature. Microchip says its EEPROMs will retain data f… [+7279 chars]
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It’s weird to think that an abacus would have still been used sixty years ago, or so posits the documentary series The Computer and the Mind of Man. This six part series originally aired on San Franc… [+1859 chars]
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Everyone knows that the most important part of a tech demo is to make the right impression, and the team over at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) definitely had this part nailed down when they … [+1163 chars]
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has undeniably witnessed a meteoric rise in recent years, revolutionising industries, transforming economies, and reshaping the way we live and work. Emergn has found tha… [+5520 chars]
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AIs ability to beat human players in games like chess and GO is no longer surprising. After all, artificial intelligence has proved it can outperform its animate creators in certain tasks, especially… [+2949 chars]
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As a counsellor, Claire Jennings has always been there for other people. But she is one of hundreds of disabled people caught up in a contractual dispute between a county council and a firm that prov… [+5385 chars]
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Last month, astronomers focused the Webb Space Telescope on the galaxy MRG-M0138 and found something surprising: a supernova in the ancient universe, magnified for your viewing pleasure by the gravit… [+2897 chars]
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The owners of a French farmhouse where British teenager Alex Batty stayed during his years missing abroad have spoken about his time living there. Alex left home in Oldham, Greater Manchester, with … [+2191 chars]
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The highest and hardest task of life may be to become entirely ourselves — to continually purify and clarify who and what we are, shedding the shoulds of culture, convention, and expectation to disco… [+4690 chars]
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El Modelo Estándar es la mejor descripción que tenemos del mundo de la física de partículas. Es tan robusto y perfecto que, a pesar de llevar muchos años buscando fisuras en él, los físicos aún no la… [+4109 chars]
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"No hay preguntas tontas afirma el dicho, solo tontos que no preguntan". Hace algunos años los físicos Rouslan Krechetnikov y H. C. Mayer decidieron aplicarse esa máxima e indagar en un enigma que pr… [+7633 chars]
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Local resident Wayne Cox and friend Irma Parrilla, visiting from Orlando, brave gusty winds and drizzling rain to visit Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, Fla., on Friday. Rebecca Blackwell/AP … [+2102 chars]
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Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at University College London and author of "Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant's Guide."He also writes on CNN that it's "essential" … [+4159 chars]
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Earlier this month, Amazon came under fire as the Los Angeles Times reported on a leaked confidential document that "reveals an extensive public relations strategy by Amazon to donate to community gr… [+2165 chars]
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In 2020 a NASA spacecraft visited the asteroid Bennu. In October it returned to earth with a sample. Monday scientists got their first data about it at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union — w… [+2073 chars]
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When scientists search for places beyond Earth that could potentially host life, they don’t only consider far-off exoplanets. They are also interested in locations right here in our solar system — an… [+2560 chars]
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More than 2 million Tesla vehicles have been recalled over a safety issue related to its Autopilot software -- specifically, a feature called Autosteer that's part of the driver-assistance system. T… [+5402 chars]
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Friday marks one month until the 2024 Iowa caucuses, the official start to the Republican presidential nominating process. But the primary has been carrying on unofficially for nearly a year now and … [+6592 chars]
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La ciencia a veces se presenta con paradojas, y esta es una de ellas. Un equipo de investigadores del Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) de la NASA ha descubierto la presencia de cianuro de hidrógeno en Encéla… [+3750 chars]
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A mosquito species that arrived in the United States in the 1970s as stowaways in used tires is slowly making its way across the continent, spreading dengue, West Nile virus, Zika, chikungunya, and e… [+1180 chars]
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The Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing a communication issue, meaning it is currently unable to send science data back to Earth. Launched in 1977, the pair of Voyager probes are the most distant ma… [+2242 chars]
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The rubber band example does indeed have two nodesthey are at the ends of the rubber band where your fingers hold it. We only have half a wavelength in the standing wave, but there is indeed a relati… [+2629 chars]
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In recent years, several states and localities have passed crown laws, statutes that keep employers from discriminating against African Amercans for wearing their hair in natural styles. Thats becaus… [+576 chars]
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The human body, consisting of 37 trillion cells, poses a complicated challenge for biologists who strive to comprehend how these cells interact to maintain life. Spatial omics, a newly emerging secto… [+1842 chars]
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In a paper published in Nature today, the researchers say it is the first time a large language model has been used to discover a solution to a long-standing scientific puzzle -- producing verifiable… [+2818 chars]
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Parents of children who died in circumstances linked to social media and gaming have accused the government of "watering down" online safety laws. They claim Science Secretary Michelle Donelan is m… [+4696 chars]
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Researchers from the SETI Institute report what may have been the first conversation with whales in the humpbacks' own language. The SETI scientists have been exploring interspecies communication to … [+1444 chars]
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Noted pedo guyElon Musk "donated" $100 million to help "The Foundation" get up and running. First, it'll be a private primary and secondary school; then, a university will appear to proctor these T… [+1115 chars]
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Four cabinet ministers in Japan quit on Thursday over a fundraising scandal involving the ruling party's most powerful faction. More than 500m yen (£2.8m; $3.4m) is alleged to have ended up in slush… [+2962 chars]
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Thierry Breton, comisionado europeo, sacaba pecho orgulloso el pasado 8 de diciembre. "Deal!" ("¡Acuerdo!"), escribía en un mensaje en X. Debajo, casi en modo influencer, publicaba un diagrama de tar… [+19836 chars]
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Nations at the UN climate summit have for the first time taken explicit aim at the use of fossil fuels. The talks in Dubai came close to collapse but in a dramatic turn-around, nations agreed to "tr… [+5174 chars]
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Harvard President Claudine Gay is saying she did not commit plagiarism in her 1997 Ph.D. thesis, despite comparisons showing word-for-word similarities with other authors' papers. From The New York … [+1852 chars]
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The Biden administration has disclosed its inaugural federal financial support for computer chip production, allocating $35 million to BAE Systems to enhance output at a facility in New Hampshire. Th… [+2456 chars]
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Iris van Herpen, septembre 2022. ROBIN DE PUY Lorsquelle était adolescente, Iris van Herpen adorait les mathématiques et la biologie. La Néerlandaise de 39 ans, à qui le Musée des arts décoratifs de… [+2414 chars]
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[The astrophysicist Shep] Doeleman said a black hole formed from folding the Earth in half could power Manhattan for a year. The Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2022. Yes, there are trade-offs. We discove… [+2951 chars]
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The arrests of several pro-democracy protesters alongside record-low turnout on Sunday in Hong Kongs first district elections in four yearsa period that has been marked by the tightening of Beijings … [+3466 chars]
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The Hubble Space Telescope is back to full operations after spending several weeks in safe mode due to a problem with one of its components. The telescope first experienced issues with one of its gyr… [+2463 chars]
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Elon Musk is a huge gaming fan — despite his dislike of Grand Theft Auto.Taylor Hill/Getty Images <ul><li>Elon Musk posted on X that he isn't a fan of "Grand Theft Auto" as he "didn't like doing cri… [+5006 chars]
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Our most-read science stories this week contain a few timeless life lessons. One, dont go into an MRI room carrying metal, particularly if that metal is a loaded gun. Two, dont cross a killer whale, … [+3242 chars]
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A long-sought and disputed project in drought-prone California aimed at capturing more water during heavy rain storms reached a key milestone on Friday when Gov. Gavin Newsom's … [+4341 chars]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced that it has approved Casgevy, the first CRISPR gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, paving the way for thousands of patients i… [+5360 chars]
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Fans have taken to social media to vent their surprise and frustration after Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man 2 failed to net a single win at The Game Awards 2023, despite being nominated in seve… [+4298 chars]
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An avalanche of new game announcements hit at The Game Awards 2023, ranging from the return of classic franchises to the reveals of all-new worlds. For those of you looking for a rundown of everythin… [+8763 chars]
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The Hubble Space Telescope recently suffered a glitch that made it go into safe mode, so it has not been collecting new science data since November 23. But on Friday, December 8, NASA will attempt to… [+2265 chars]
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For months, Al Gore has vocally panned the choice to put Sultan Al Jaber, the CEO of the United Arab Emirates state-owned oil company, in charge of the annual United Nations climate conference known … [+2756 chars]
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By the end of the decade, NASA’s Artemis program hopes to have placed boots back on the Moon for the first time since 1972. But not for the quick sightseeing jaunts of the Apollo era — the space agen… [+7825 chars]
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The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware. Whenever you see … [+2482 chars]
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It was easy to miss, amid the horrors, what answered them. In the blood-soaked weeks that started on Oct. 7, the most consequential acts in Israel and in Gaza may also have been the least noticed, ca… [+17877 chars]
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Is Mk really flat? Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0. From where I am sitting, the earth is flat. The floor that runs the length of the unit my hackerspace sits in is flat, the concrete apron behind it on… [+4232 chars]
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Its a question as old as the tech industry itself: can Europe compete with Silicon Valley? This reared up again in my mind for two main reasons. The first is the recent(-ish) shift of Big Tech into … [+9399 chars]
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Israeli men, armed with U.S.-made M16 automatic assault rifles, walk in a shopping center in Jerusalem on Oct. 25, amid the ongoing battles in the Gaza Strip between Israel and Hamas. Yuri Cortez/AF… [+5989 chars]
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Enlarge/ The Google Gemini logo. 8 On Wednesday, Google announced Gemini, a multimodal AI model family it hopes will rival OpenAI's GPT-4, which powers the paid version of ChatGPT. Google claims th… [+3423 chars]
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The number of delegates at this year's UN climate talks who are also linked to fossil fuel producers has quadrupled since last year, campaigners say. Around 2,400 people connected to the coal, oil a… [+3312 chars]
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In a preprint research paper titled "Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test?", two researchers from UC San Diego pitted OpenAI's GPT-4 AI language model against human participants, GPT-3.5, and ELIZA to see… [+2411 chars]
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Israel has been actively fighting against the financing of Iran-supported militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. A new aspect of this continuous battle is the rising popularity of the cryptocurren… [+2335 chars]
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The quest for new materials, pivotal for technological breakthroughs in fields like EV batteries, solar cells, and microchips, has historically been a slow and labor-intensive process. This scenario,… [+3515 chars]
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Researchers at Google DeepMind have used artificial intelligence to predict the structures of more than 2 million new materials, in a breakthrough that could have wide-reaching benefits in sectors su… [+5708 chars]
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Hace poco más de los meses la NASA recuperaba la cápsula que traía a la Tierra restos del asteroide Bennu, recogidos por la misión OSIRIS-REx. Al abrir la cápsula los responsables de la misión descub… [+5346 chars]
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Called graphical networks for material exploration (GNoME), the technology has already been used to predict structures for 2.2 million new materials, of which more than 700 have gone on to be created… [+1147 chars]
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A European spacecraft has revealed the secrets of a star system that has puzzled researchers for years. The rare six sextuplet of planets was found thanks to data collected by Cheops the CHaracteris… [+2035 chars]
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NASA has announced a delay in its ambitious Dragonfly mission to Saturns moon Titan, moving the launch date to July 2028. This decision, driven by budget uncertainties, comes despite the mission succ… [+4120 chars]
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A 63-year-old man in Missouri went in for a routine colonoscopy, only to give doctors an extremely rare find: a perfectly intact (albeit dead) fly. "I've been doing this for over 20 years, so I've … [+1720 chars]
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Hace ya unos cuantos años, en agosto de 1991, un grupo de arqueólogos desenterró en Saskatchewan, Canadá, un amasijo de huesos de lo que parecía ser un dinosaurio que había vivido a finales del Cretá… [+5053 chars]
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Science fiction-style beam weapons that can destroy targets with directed lasers or microwaves are the near-term future of advanced weaponry. According to the US Office of Naval Research, the beam we… [+1514 chars]
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The philosopher of science Daniel Dennett once lamented that his peers didnt take engineering seriously enough. There are excellent philosophers of physics, philosophers of biology, philosophers of m… [+1230 chars]
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A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began this weekend in Gaza, as hostages and prisoners were freed by both sides. But any end to the immediate conflict still remains in doubt. Guest: Peter Beinar… [+628 chars]
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Researchers have detected one of the highest-energy particles ever falling to Earth. Cosmic rays are high-energy particles that come from sources in space such as the sun, but this recent detection i… [+2783 chars]
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Stranger Things has become one of the most beloved shows of this generation. The Netflix series appeals to both kids and parents thanks, in part, to its kid-centric cast and 1980s throwback setting. … [+8940 chars]
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Hace unas semanas la sonda OSIRIS REx regresaba a la Tierra con muestras del asteroide Bennu. No era la primera vez que rocas de un asteroide llegaban a la Tierra, pero el botín con el que regresaba … [+6165 chars]
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New research in the journal Evolutionary Human Sciences, from University of Kent researchers Louis Bachaud and Sarah Johns, explores how members of various manosphere communities (think Andrew Tate a… [+6820 chars]
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Developer Dont Nods supernaturally-infused episodic adventure title Life is Strange has surpassed 20 million lifetime players since its launch in January 2015. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! read a po… [+2914 chars]
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Los precios del cacao han crecido un 75% este año y han llegado a un máximo que no se veía en los últimos 45 años. Hay muchos motivos, claro. La enfermedad de la vaina negra, la desaparición de los g… [+3789 chars]
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No es el más reciente rayo cósmico que ha impactado en la Tierra ni el más potente. Sin embargo, en el rayo cósmico Amateratsu (así lo han llamado los científicos que lo han estudiado) hay varios fac… [+3887 chars]
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If you've ever wanted to smoke your herb of choice out of a croissant, or an oyster, or an okra, or even a fried chicken drumstick, New Orleans-based and -inspired Ficus Ceramica's got you covered. … [+2594 chars]
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The puzzling cosmic ray had an estimated energy of 240 exa-electron volts (EeV; 10^18 volts), making it comparable to the most powerful cosmic ray ever detected, aptly named the Oh-My-God particle, w… [+776 chars]
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Scientists from the Telescope Array Collaboration have detected an ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray, a discovery thats challenging our current understanding of exotic cosmic phenomena and their origins. … [+5113 chars]
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As far as the climate (and, truthfully, much else) is concerned, 2023 has felt like one nasty jack-in-the-box moment after another; there have been a record number of billion-dollar natural disasters… [+6262 chars]
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Just before Coldplay took to the stage in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday night for their final stop of the year on their Music of the Spheres world tour, Malaysian authorities announced that a kill switch… [+8303 chars]
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MADISON, Wis. -- Animal welfare advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to invalidate Wisconsin's new wolf management plan, accusing state wildlife officials of violating the state's open meeting… [+3801 chars]
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The general tone of most industry conferences tends to be akin to a sector-specific pep rally. But at an anti-factory-farming summit last month in Denver, the tenor of discussions was more like a gro… [+5959 chars]
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English peas grow in simulated Martian dirt. Emmanuel Mendoza Humans have stepped foot on the moon, but we haven't made it to Mars. Yet. Amid the myriad barriers, a key issue to sending a crew to … [+4536 chars]
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A US court dramatically rolled back key elements of a landmark civil rights act on Monday, blocking individual citizens' ability to appeal against discriminatory voting practices. The decision - ap… [+7143 chars]
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Researchers Kenny Travouillon (Western Australian Museum), Christine Cooper (Curtin University), Jemmy Bouzin (Curtin University), Linette Umbrello (Queensland University of Technology), and Simon Le… [+4504 chars]
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For years, the Israeli government has allowed for widows to request posthumous sperm retrieval from fallen soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force. As The Times of Israel explains: Sperm must be retri… [+857 chars]
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A decisive majority of Argentinian voters opted for trying something new when they elected Javier Milei to be the countrys next president. Amid soaring inflation and rising poverty, Milei, a right-w… [+4974 chars]
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A view of thousands of galaxies in the galaxy cluster MACS0416, combining data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.NASA Something very strange is going on in the unive… [+13936 chars]
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An experimental test of laser communications riding along with the Psyche mission has sent back its first data, in a demonstration of the use of laser communications for deep space missions. The Deep… [+2921 chars]
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Target is hosting one of the best promotions weve seen yet during Black Friday and thats saying something, given how good these early Black Friday deals are. Through Nov. 25, virtually all books, mov… [+5721 chars]
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Python "come with downsides," argues a new article in Communications of the ACM. "Its programs tend to run slowly, and because it is inefficient at running processes in parallel, it is not well suite… [+3303 chars]
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Exoplanets come in many forms, from dense, rocky planets like Earth and Mars to gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. But some planets discovered outside our solar system are even less dense than gas g… [+2623 chars]
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The sun sets behind pumpjacks on Sept. 15, 2021, in the oilfields of Penwell, Texas. Eli Hartman/AP AUSTIN, Texas Texas' education board approved new science textbooks Friday but called on some pub… [+3506 chars]
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Es una paradoja climática. Cada vez que encendemos los aparatos de aire acondicionado de nuestros hogares contribuimos a un mayor gasto energético y emisiones de CO2 que, en última instancia, acaban … [+6115 chars]
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It is an interesting fact that the most efficient way to generate electricity — at least so far — is to spin the shaft of a generator. The only real question is how you spin it. Falling water works. … [+1212 chars]
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A perimeter fence surrounds the U.S. Capitol in February ahead of President Biden's State of the Union speech in Washington, D.C. Mariam Zuhaib/AP With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer … [+9386 chars]
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For the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began, the Department of Education is moving forward with several investigations into U.S. colleges and schools where students have reported antisemitism… [+7671 chars]
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The civil fraud trial of Donald Trump concluded its first week of defense testimony Friday, with Trump's eldest son and a series of expert witnesses seeking to show that Trump is not liable for fraud… [+2882 chars]
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Crio Bru. I’m not a coffee drinker, but I like to have something warm to sip on as I get the day going. Kate and I have enjoyed Crio Bru on and off for the past few years, and it’s currently part my … [+2838 chars]
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Es uno de los fenómenos de la cultura pop más fascinantes y contundentes de la última década. El cómic 'Scott Pilgrim', publicado originariamente entre 2004 y 2010 en seis volúmenes, escrito y guioni… [+1868 chars]
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La meteorología en otros planetas puede ser muy extraña: desde aquellos en los que el metano se comporta como nuestra agua a aquellos en los que los diamantes caen del cielo. Ahora el James Webb ha e… [+4203 chars]
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The UK doesnt plan on introducing AI regulation anytime soon in contrast to the EUs and Chinas strict legislation efforts. During a Financial Times conference on Thursday, the countrys first ministe… [+1619 chars]
Read MoreA Long March-2C carrier rocket blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.Xinhua/Getty Images <ul><li>China is taking the competition to Elon Musk in the space race. </li><li>China will lau… [+2274 chars]
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@OnLeaks / MySmartPrice A new year approaches, which means a new slate of smartphones will start to hit in a few months. One of the first that we’ll see in 2024 should be from OnePlus with its flags… [+7007 chars]
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(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) This week I published a cover story profiling Sultan Al Jaber, the controversial president of the comi… [+3435 chars]
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to seek a resolution through dialogue to a dispute over the discharge of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear pl… [+3283 chars]
Read MoreUS President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 202… [+4883 chars]
Read MoreAn artist's concept shows the variety of rocky, Earth-like planets that might exist across the universe.NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech) <ul><li>NASA scientists may have solved the mystery of … [+3761 chars]
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Bill Nelson, el actual líder de la NASA, dijo este año en una entrevista: «Queremos impedir que China llegue y diga que el agua es suya». Se refería, específicamente, al polo sur de la Luna, un terri… [+9141 chars]
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<ul><li>A published study states Google's AI model, "GraphCast," can predict the weather faster and with more accuracy than the standard European model.</li><li>Google's version is said to provide we… [+2375 chars]
Read MoreDustin Moskovitz (left) slammed Elon Musk (right).PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images and Chesnot/Getty Images <ul><li>Dustin Moskovitz called for Elon Musk to resign after he agreed with … [+4925 chars]
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Read MoreArcheaologists uncovered the remains of a pre-Viking age ship at the Herlaugshaugen burial ground this summer.Courtesy of Geir Grønnesby, NTNU Science Museum <ul><li>Researchers unearthed the remain… [+2988 chars]
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<ul><li>Google is opening Bard access to teenage accounts aged 13 and older.</li><li>Teens can ask Bard for inspiration covering a range of topics while also getting a bit of help with math equations… [+2659 chars]
Read MoreDogecoin was started as a joke in 2013.Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images <ul> <li>A physical dogecoin token is due to take a trip to the moon aboard Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One.</li> <li>The lunar la… [+1621 chars]
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Bonobos (pictured) and chimpanzees are our closest relatives. A new study looks at how a community of bonobos behave when they encounter a different group of bonobos. It's markedly different from the… [+7789 chars]
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Does confidence equal competence? Not quite. In a talk that will make you better aware of yourself, experimental psychologist Robin Kramer delves into the Dunning-Kruger effect which argues that thos… [+2729 chars]
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In a breakthrough for artificial intelligence, researchers at Google’s DeepMind have developed an AI system called GraphCast that can predict worldwide weather up to 10 days in the future more accura… [+2258 chars]
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If you smell pine trees in the air, hear some bells in the distance, and feel a slight chill in the air, that must mean one thing: it’s Christmastime, baby! If you want to celebrate the season by wat… [+4287 chars]
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ATMORE, Ala. -- An Alabama inmate scheduled to be put to death Thursday by lethal injection for the shooting death of his friend's father urged young people to take a pause before making life-alterin… [+3969 chars]
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One curious fact about our era is that science has become a de facto religion, with scientists serving as clergy. I was reminded of this recently while reading Unsettled, in which author Steve Koonin… [+14984 chars]
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It used to be a common expression to say that something would happen when “people walked on the moon.” That is, something that was never going to happen. Of course, by 1960, it was clear that someone… [+6175 chars]
Read MoreChoosing a major can be difficult.Picture Alliance/Getty Images <ul><li>I'm a history professor who teaches a careers class for history majors.</li><li>I've found students are focused on the belief … [+4470 chars]
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In my earliest recollection from the story of my life as a human lab rat, Im 7 or 8 years old. Im sitting in an experiment room in Tolman Hall, a Brutalist building on the north side of the Universit… [+15535 chars]
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Whether you call it propaganda or greenwashing, companies have long used marketing to tout the good they do for the environment while obfuscating any negative externalities of their businesses. Howev… [+647 chars]
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If you corner any science person whos relatively online and into skin care, the discussion will almost inevitably turn toward the Lab Muffin Beauty Science blog. Thats because for many people, its cr… [+2204 chars]
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7:55 A.M. I wake up and immediately open Bumble. I swipe until I match with a woman who writes in her profile that the Mamma Mia! movies are better than the Avengers films. I promptly send her a mes… [+2591 chars]
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Science fiction, as a genre, can demand a lot from the actors involved. They’re tasked with reciting the kind of scientific mumbo jumbo that all sci-fi scripts contain and are forced to find ways to … [+4594 chars]
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GraphCast outperformed the model from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) in more than 90% of over 1,300 test areas. And on predictions for Earth's troposphere -- the lowes… [+1555 chars]
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The SETI Institute, a leading non-profit in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has received a transformative $200 million gift from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a long-time supporter wh… [+3247 chars]
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Climate change is making it harder to maintain safe homes and healthy families in the United States, according to an extensive report compiled by experts across the federal government and released Tu… [+4317 chars]
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Nintendo has announced a new Indie World Showcase airs on November 14, and features roughly 20 minutes of updates and announcements focussed on indie titles coming to the Switch. The presentation st… [+1298 chars]
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NASA will hold off sending commands to its Mars fleet for two weeks, from Nov. 11 to 25, while Earth and the Red Planet are on opposite sides of the Sun. Called Mars solar conjunction, this phenomeno… [+759 chars]
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When the Lewiston High School Blue Devils boys' soccer team won a state championship, they brought joy to a community that was rocked by a mass shooting in late October. Russ Dillingham /Sun Journal… [+4033 chars]
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Ten months after unveiling the iPhone, then Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a splash with an open letter letting the world know that third-party developers would be able to write their apps for the smartph… [+14247 chars]
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Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from the Garden of Eden — a deeply damaging story about human nature, damning us and our relationship to … [+5988 chars]
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Lo llaman Rising Star, pero si algo caracteriza este sistema de cuevas de la "Cuna de la Humanidad", un valioso yacimiento arqueológico situado a 50 kilómetros de Johannesburgo, es su inaccesibilidad… [+5819 chars]
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A video circulating on social media featuring a woman removing posters with photos of kidnapped Israeli victims at the University of Southern California (USC) has gone viral. The New York-based nonpa… [+1941 chars]
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BILLINGS, Mont. Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8's historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was … [+4664 chars]
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Its not yet December, but NASA is already in a festive mood: the Webb and Hubble space telescopes recently imaged MACS0416, a pair of colliding galaxy clusters 4.3 billion light-years from Earth that… [+3649 chars]
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Meta announced Wednesday (Nov. 8) that it would require labels for political ads that have been digitally altered, using AI or other technology, in ways that could be misleading. The announcement c… [+7202 chars]
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Meta developed detailed plans to fix features that experts believe compromised the mental health of users, such as "beauty filters" on Instagram, but Mark Zuckerberg "personally and repeatedly thwart… [+2171 chars]
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Bob is someone who sings all the time, Senator Robert Menendezs wife, Nadine, told the Times in 2021. He sings every morning, every night, and in-between while he smokes his after-dinner cigar. Menen… [+4500 chars]
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Susan Hurlburt visits her son's grave on Hart Island for the first time in April 2023. Andrew Lichtenstein/Radio Diaries Riverside Park runs along the Hudson River on New York's Upper West Side. It… [+13126 chars]
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Mechanical actions underlie much of what makes modern day society function, whether it’s electric motors, combustion engines, switches, levers, or the springs inside a toy blaster gun that propel foa… [+2617 chars]
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William Peter Blatty’s novel, The Exorcist, conjured up one of the most iconic but divisive horror franchises in media history. With the first movie released in 1973, director William Friedkin‘s shoc… [+5245 chars]
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Scientists studying fossil human footprints in New Mexico say their age implies that humans arrived in North America earlier than thought. NPS Photo How long have humans lived on the American conti… [+5206 chars]
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The Euclid space telescope, recently launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), has been having some problems during its commissioning phase. Issues with its Fine Guidance Sensor were preventing th… [+2162 chars]
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A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the majesty of the gorgeous Orion nebula in tremendous detail. The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared an extremely high-resolution version of… [+2108 chars]
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The 1980s were a big time for horror cinema. Many bloody slashers, genre-benders, and video nasties popped up in this decade, and the fact many of them are so beloved has been a significant factor in… [+5428 chars]
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For sixty years, orcas in the Salish Sea off Washington state and British Columbia have been observed to harass baby porpoises, tossing them out of the water to each other for hours. The orcas' behav… [+1763 chars]
Read MoreAlbert Einstein pondered very complex ideas but tried to make them accessible.Hulton Archive / Stringer / Getty Images <ul> <li>Albert Einstein was well known for his thought experiments involving c… [+6412 chars]
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Move over monotremes and the range of rodents known to glow: over one hundred other furry creatures do, too, new research shows, vastly increasing the number of mammals known to show the spooky trait… [+2691 chars]
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La producción de plásticos ha crecido de forma exponencial a lo largo de los últimos 70 años. Es por eso que no nos resulte extraño que los microplásticos aparezcan cada vez con más frecuencia en nue… [+3983 chars]
Read MoreA schematic representation shows an electron under 12-qubit quantum dot gates.Associated Press <ul><li>Quantum dot research won three scientists the Nobel Prize in chemistry.</li><li>A quantum dot i… [+2720 chars]
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Thailands new Prime Minister has been off to a rocky start. The ascension in August of Srettha Thavisin, a former real estate developer and relative newcomer to politics, was marked by controversyhis… [+9529 chars]
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(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) After years of conference room discussions and think tank white papers calling for new rules to push c… [+2839 chars]
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Reporting that Amazon announced a $4 billion investment in AI lab Anthropic, VentureBeat says the big tech companies and venture capitalists are in the midst of a gold rush. The boom in generative A… [+2076 chars]
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Nasa astronauts will be flying in style, with luxury fashion designer Prada helping design space suits for the 2025 moon mission. The Italian fashion house will work to design the suits alongside an… [+1529 chars]
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Si todo va según lo previsto el LHC de alta luminosidad (HL-LHC por su sigla en inglés) estará listo a finales de esta década. En 2029, o, a lo sumo, en 2030. Este acelerador de partículas será una h… [+4610 chars]
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Mike Dulak grew up Catholic in Southern California, but by his teen years, he began skipping Mass and driving straight to the shore to play guitar, watch the waves and enjoy the beauty of the morning… [+6543 chars]
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Play it again, Pazuzuits time for more demonic possession, but this time make it a double. The Exorcist: Believer calls a familiar demon back into theaters just in time for spooky season. Director D… [+3144 chars]
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TOKYO -- Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son on Wednesday said he believes artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence within a decade, urging Japanese companies to adopt it or be left behind. So… [+1774 chars]
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(VATICAN CITY) Pope Francis shamed and challenged world leaders on Wednesday to commit to binding targets to slow climate change before its too late, warning that Gods increasingly warming creation i… [+7082 chars]
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Although it is generally assumed that surface elastic waves (vibrations) — such as those of earthquakes — will travel mostly unimpeded until their energy dissipates, there are ways to ‘steer’ this en… [+1356 chars]
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Electrons move at a whopping 43 miles a second. This speed long made them impossible to study. The new experimental techniques created by the three scientist-laureates use short light pulses to captu… [+1217 chars]
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A new image taken by the Dark Energy Camera shows a “galactic onion,” a shell galaxy with multiple layers that are spread out over a distance of 150,000 light-years. At around twice the size of the M… [+2561 chars]
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Many of the weather events we experience here on Earth can be found on other planets too, and that includes whirlwinds. Several missions have observed small whirlwinds called dust devils on Mars, and… [+2390 chars]
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Cuando Newton decidió escribir sus Principios matemáticos de la filosofía natural (Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica) lo hizo en latín y no en inglés, algo no tan extraño en la época, pero … [+3358 chars]
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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope, which launched in July this year to investigate the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, has run into issues during its commissioning ph… [+2616 chars]
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Some of the most dramatic events in the universe are the deaths of massive stars. When stars far larger than our sun run out of fuel and explode in huge supernovas, these events not only let out huge… [+2696 chars]
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The rivalry between Asias two biggest countries has extended into outer space. After Indias landing of its Chandrayaan-3 rover on the moon last monthbecoming the first country to put a spacecraft ne… [+2427 chars]
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Back in the day a miniature television, probably on a wristwatch, was the stuff of science fiction. Now, it’s something which can be done with a commodity microcontroller, as [Atomic14] shows us with… [+942 chars]
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Sobre la superficie del planeta rojo hay más vehículos que en algunas regiones terrestres. Actualmente, pueden contarse cinco robots, de los cuales solo siguen activos dos: Curiosity y Perseverance. … [+3528 chars]
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Whether intentionally or not, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan trolled Donald Trump and his fellow Qnuts when she set his trial date for March 4 the same date that QAnon had erroneously predicted Tr… [+1702 chars]
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Andrada Fiscutean explores the world of North Korean science fiction (previously at Boing Boing), "rich in political tension" and often featuring "breathtaking confrontations between North Korea and … [+1210 chars]
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Police and prosecutors in the Andrew Malkinson case knew there was another mans DNA on the victims clothes in 2007 three years after he was wrongly convicted of rape but he remained in prison for ano… [+7848 chars]
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A galaxy first seen in a massive Webb Space Telescope deep field image a year ago is one of the earliest ever spotted, according to a team of astronomers that reviewed imagery of the structure. The … [+3169 chars]
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Watch this cool footage of a swarm of drones navigating through a crowded bamboo forest. The drones, created by researchers at Zhejiang University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, … [+616 chars]
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Driverless cars are here if you happen to live in San Francisco, at least. Regulators voted last week to allow two companies to run driverless taxi services in the city. So it is surprising to hear f… [+7068 chars]
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El pasado 17 de julio los técnicos y los investigadores del CERN que trabajan en el LHC (Large Hadron Collider), que es su mayor acelerador de partículas, se llevaron un buen susto. A las 01 h de la … [+4180 chars]
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Participants at the 2023 Def Con hacker convention, trying to subvert AI chatbots as part of a contest to test the systems' vulnerabilities. Paul Bloch/Paul's Vegas Photography Ben Bowman is having… [+6614 chars]
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Hopefully there will still be one or two fit players available to kick off the upcoming Rugby World Cup next month. The list of warm-up casualties, however, is already rising steadily. Poor Romain Nt… [+10375 chars]
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Bethesda updated its wildly anticipated sci-fi RPG Starfields website with a canonical timeline on August 14. Aside from digging into three centuries of imagined interplanetary drama that lead to the… [+1988 chars]
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Cybercrime, on top of being difficult to detect and even more so to prove, is notoriously tricky to visualize. The impact may be tangible, even devastating nuclear plants damaged, hospitals disabled,… [+4855 chars]
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Archaeologists in Pie, Poland found the 17th century grave of a "vampire" child. Incredibly (fortunately?), the little bloodsucker's ankle was apparently secured with an iron padlock to prevent it fr… [+727 chars]
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Desde hace unos años los físicos sospechan que las cuatro interacciones o fuerzas fundamentales conocidas (fuerzas electromagnética, nuclear fuerte, nuclear débil, e interacción gravitatoria) podrían… [+4351 chars]
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W. Jason Morgan, a Princeton University geologist who laid out an influential new vision of our evolving planet, attributing the most powerful upheavals earthquakes, volcanoes and the formation of mo… [+7082 chars]
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Cheryl Hines, actor and wife of Presidential candidate RFK, Jr.the anti-vaccine darling of the Center for Countering Digital Hate's "Disinformation Dozen" (12 people responsible for spreading approxi… [+1093 chars]
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The BBC has sold its historic Maida Vale studios to a partnership that includes the Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer and the film producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. The venue in north-west Lond… [+3475 chars]
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During the summer of 2021, I flew to Greece to learn more about the wildfires there. I wanted to hear peoples stories, to understand what it meant to be displaced by environmental disaster. I have fa… [+5308 chars]
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Starfield is the first new IP from renowned developer Bethesda Game Studios since The Elder Scrolls debuted in 1994. That alone comes with lofty expectations, not to mention that the space-set RPG ha… [+15288 chars]
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Remember that time when the entire physics community dropped what it was doing to replicate the extraordinary claim that a room-temperature semiconductor had been discovered? We sure do, and if it se… [+5801 chars]
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Dr. David W. Jensen breaks the discussion into three main categories — asteroid selection, habitat style selection, and mission strategy to get there (i.e., what robots to use)... He eventually settl… [+1269 chars]
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The modern world of consumer tech wouldn't exist as we know it if not for the near-ubiquitous connectivity that Wi-Fi internet provides. It serves as the wireless link bridging our mobile devices and… [+12159 chars]
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Ever thought about getting down and dirty in a robotaxi? Want to light up a cig or a joint on the drive home from the club? Youre not alone. As autonomous vehicles become increasingly popular in Sa… [+9822 chars]
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Niamey, Niger Tensions are escalating between Niger's new military regime and the West African regional bloc that has ordered the deployment of troops to restore Niger's flailing democracy. The ECOW… [+5464 chars]
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In a recent blog post, [Benjamin Breen] makes an interesting case that 2023 might go down in history as the start of a scientific revolution, and that’s even if LK-99 turns out to be a dud. He points… [+2254 chars]
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So the room-temperature superconductor was a super disappointment, but even though the claims didnt stand up in the end, the even better news is that real science was done. A paper making extraordina… [+1871 chars]
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The British governments promise to protect encryption has been pilloried by security experts and libertarians. The dispute stems from a section of the Online Safety Bill. Under the legislation, mess… [+3036 chars]
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Researchers have shown how to conduct thousands of rapid molecular screenings simultaneously, using light to identify target molecules snared on top of an array of tiny silicon blocks. In theory, the… [+2184 chars]
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It would have been a suitable assignment for Tintin, the intrepid Belgian boy reporter and his multi-talented, intuitive dog, Snowy. Across Brussels, where Hergé, the creator of the eponymous comic … [+9292 chars]
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In an eerie echo of 2018s Camp Fire, which sped through the town of Paradise, California, destroying 19,000 buildings and killing 85 people, ferocious wildfires are tearing through Maui, forcing some… [+2964 chars]
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If you live in a city or have family members who keep you awake, you probably have a love-hate relationship with noises at night. Loud changes in sound are jarring and can interrupt your sleep. Noise… [+7793 chars]
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Un mosaico de grietas de barro en la superficie de Marte son la prueba de que el planeta rojo tenía un clima cíclico parecido al de la Tierra. El hallazgo, además, es otro indicio de que el territori… [+3525 chars]
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The competition launches Wednesday at the cybersecurity conference Black Hat in Las Vegas. It asks participants to create tools that can be used by anyone to help identify and fix holes in software t… [+913 chars]
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The special counsel investigating Donald Trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election tried, failed, and ultimately succeeded in accessing the former presidents Twitter account, documents published W… [+2539 chars]
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Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here At the Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas today the nations largest hacking conference the Biden-Harris a… [+1432 chars]
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Our local and state level government systems are hacked and held ransom with disheartening regularity. At the Black Hat USA Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, the Biden Administration revealed its… [+3837 chars]
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Debate is a time-honored tradition for Star Trek fans. Was Janeway right about Tuvix? (Yes.) Is Star Trek: Discoveryruining the franchise with all that crying? (No, its great; get in touch with your … [+9429 chars]
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Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images The death of a lion in Kenyas picturesque savannas rarely tugs at peoples hearts, even in a country where wildlife tourism is a key pillar of the nations economy. Bu… [+8393 chars]
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Actor Roddy McDowall took home movies of a morning during the filming of the 1968 film Planet of Apes, and they're a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse into this landmark science fiction movie. … [+1473 chars]
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Scientific misconduct has enjoyed some limelight lately. The president of Stanford, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, resigned last month after a series of investigations exposed serious problems in his research… [+6575 chars]
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It was a school competition to build a radio that set Kemisola Bolarinwa on her path to becoming the inventor of a bra that can detect cancer. My physics teacher brought the idea of coming up with a … [+13263 chars]
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NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, captured an aerial image of the Perseverance rover during its latest flight at the end of last week. The aircraft and rover arrived together on t… [+2805 chars]
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Id heard great things about dine-in movie theaters, so I was thrilled when my friend booked us tickets to see Barbie at the local Alamo Drafthouse, a chain thats conquered the dinner-and-a-show marke… [+4950 chars]
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Walking just 4,000 steps per dayless than half of the 10,000 steps often recommended for maintaining an active lifestylemay be enough to help extend your life, according to a new research review publ… [+2902 chars]
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Remember when conspiracy theories were fun (and usually harmless) entertainment for those of us who appreciated kook culture and the fringes of thought and reason? Sadly, those days are over. Now, as… [+1785 chars]
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7 with As machine-learning algorithms grow more sophisticated, artificial intelligence seems poised to revolutionize the practice of science itself. In part, this will come from the software enabli… [+2892 chars]
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Picture the boreal forest, in northern Quebec, on the morning of June 1st. Bears, moose, and wolves roamed, circling its unusually dry lakes, bogs, rivers, and creeks. In the afternoon, after weeks o… [+14154 chars]
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Just over a decade ago, Kelley Williams-Bolar made a decision that dramatically changed her familys trajectory both in ways she hoped and in ways she never imagined. The decision? Using her dads ho… [+7718 chars]
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Over the weekend, one of Alaska’s most famous glaciers melted enough to inundate the state’s capital, Juneau, with a record amount of floodwater, taking with it entire homes and forcing city official… [+5288 chars]
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For the past 10 years, Tim Blais has been producing a cappella parodies of hit songs, replacing the original lyrics with science-based ones. "The Science of Love" (a send-up of Queen's 1976 "Somebod… [+445 chars]
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A recovery in the number of corals growing on the Great Barrier Reef over recent years has paused, with government scientists blaming bleaching, disease and attacks by starfish. Results from the lat… [+3494 chars]
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Even in Antarcticaone of the most remote and desolate places on Earthscientists say they are finding shattered temperature records and an increase in the size and number of wacky weather events. The… [+4833 chars]
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg is focusing more of Meta's efforts on commercializing AI.Charles Platiau/Reuters <ul> <li>Tech firms once had the luxury of pursuing expensive AI research. </li> <li>But the rise of … [+3377 chars]
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Instagrams off-shoot app, Threads, is Metas answer to Twitter (now rebranded to "X" by Elon Musk). Dubbed a "Twitter Killer," Threads amassed 100 million users in just five days. Among new Threads u… [+8578 chars]
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Últimamente se habla mucho en redes sociales sobre LK-99, el superconductor perfecto, que podría revolucionar la física de la energía tal y como la conocemos. Es más, según han declarado algunos de l… [+6181 chars]
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The first study to compare the absorbance of period products using human blood suggests diaphragm-shaped menstrual discs may be better than traditional pads or tampons for dealing with heavy monthly … [+3896 chars]
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It is virtually certain that future extreme events in Antarctica will be worse than the extraordinary changes already observed, according to a new scientific warning that stresses the case for immedi… [+8510 chars]
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So much of today's AI-generated artwork has a fantasy/science fiction vibe to it. Now, Dungeons & Dragons has put the kibosh on professional illustrators using AI-generated art in its products. T… [+1190 chars]
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UK-based aerospace software startup ZEROAVIA announced today that sustainability certification body Gold Standard has approved its methodology concept to issue what could be referred to as contrail c… [+3826 chars]
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Air pollution is helping to drive a rise in antibiotic resistance that poses a significant threat to human health worldwide, a global study suggests. The analysis, using data from more than 100 coun… [+4950 chars]
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In any other game, two mega corporations obliterating each other in a galactic war would be the storys focus. But in Citizen Sleeper 2, the conflict between Conway and Senetstat at the centre of the … [+2986 chars]
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NASA When it comes to building enormous, complex space telescopes, agencies like NASA have to plan far in advance. Even though the James Webb Space Telescope only launched recently, astronomers are … [+9877 chars]
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When most people think about losing weight, they think about the details of a diet plan what food to eat, how much of it to eat, and when to eat it. What they don’t spend enough time working on, are … [+51960 chars]
Read MoreA computer generated image of the remains from the skull of HLD 6 (show in yellow).Wu et al. PNAS 2019, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902396116 <ul> <li>An ancient skull found in China is like nothing scien… [+3226 chars]
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The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive certainly sounds like something out of science fiction — using an array of magnets and electrodes, this high-tech propulsion technology promises to silently propel… [+2664 chars]
Read MoreA US Marine launches a Switchblade drone during an exercise in California in September 2020.US Marine Corps/Cpl. Jennessa Davey <ul> <li>The US Army is rushing to develop its own tank-killing drone … [+4822 chars]
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Esther Flanagan has a job on her hands. The behavioural scientist has been tasked with the seemingly impossible: to get police forces across England and Wales to quit misogyny and sexism, using simil… [+5039 chars]
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Falling deforestation rates in countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Colombia and Brazil could provide a boost to climate and biodiversity efforts, experts say, in the run-up to a key summit on th… [+7642 chars]
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A stroll down Quantum Boulevard reveals one of the worlds tightest concentrations of bleeding-edge technology firms. Dozens of companies feed a quantum-computing supply chain that did not exist a few… [+11458 chars]
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Oleg Gang es un forofo de las películas de 'Iron Man'. Uno muy especial, único entre la vasta cohorte de seguidores de Tony Stark. El motivo es sencillo. En su calidad de científico de nanomateriales… [+5864 chars]
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The mosh pit has a reputation as a violent place where (mostly) white guys vent their aggression. Theres some truth to that, but its also a place bound by camaraderie andbelieve it or notetiquette. I… [+683 chars]
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You could practically hear the collective “PHEW!” as NASA announced that they had reestablished full two-way communications with Voyager 2 on Friday afternoon! Details are few at this point — hopeful… [+1921 chars]
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Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don't worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Wizards of the Coast celebrated the 30th anniversary of Magic: The Gathering at G… [+9452 chars]
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It sounds like science fiction but “thought control” — communicating commands from a human brain directly to an external device — is happening here and now. It allows patients with cerebral palsy, sp… [+4789 chars]
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Read MoreFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis greeting residents at a Fourth of July parade on July 4, 2023, in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images <ul><li>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is … [+7718 chars]
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It's about a molecule designated AOH1996, which seems to have a unique mode of action in tumor cells, one that might make it more more selective for those as compared to normal ones. The key target h… [+2616 chars]
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"NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2," according to a mission update posted Friday: The agency's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, sent the equivalent of an i… [+1513 chars]
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A handful of little green blocks flashes up on the screen, filling a building site with a neat grid of uniform cubes. One second they form rows of towers, next they morph into low-rise courtyards, th… [+12622 chars]
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On the first day of classes at physiotherapy school, all students are made to strip down to their underwear. Its not a hazing ritual, but it is an initiation of sorts. Unclothed, the students are tol… [+14235 chars]
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At least 57 people fell ill with sickness and diarrhoea after competing in sea swimming events at the World Triathlon Championship Series in Sunderland, health officials confirmed this weekend. Abou… [+5356 chars]
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From GP appointments to railway tickets to cashless parking, key services in the UK are being delivered digitally. For many, the convenience is a tangible benefit. But there are appreciable downsides… [+3223 chars]
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Many moons ago I remember reading about famous peoples beauty habits (these days I try to occupy my time with more useful things). Mascara was the one item of makeup many would not leave the house wi… [+3015 chars]
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In terms of diet, humans can best be described as omnivorous opportunists. We dont have the multichambered stomachs that help herbivores subsist on grass, but we have more molars than the average car… [+4512 chars]
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One of the UK's most secretive centres of scientific research - Porton Down - is aiming to stop the next pandemic "in its tracks". I have passed through the incredibly tight security at this remote … [+4525 chars]
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A group of engineers is testing an air conditioning system in space, seeing how two basic processes work in an environment with less gravity than Earth in order to design a system for future habitats… [+1843 chars]
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On the map of the US Drought Monitor, a joint project of federal agencies and the University of Nebraska, colored warnings cover the landscape. Its abnormally dry in Michigan. Minnesota is in moderat… [+3911 chars]
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Dr. Rebecca Rogers practices primary care at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Somerville, Mass. During a recent appointment, she went over hydration tips with her patient Luciano Gomes, who works in … [+9365 chars]
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The remains of Catoctin Furnace in Maryland as seen in 2020. Researchers have now analyzed the DNA of enslaved and free Black workers there, connecting them to nearly 42,000 living relatives. Kather… [+6695 chars]
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Three insect specimens are stored in a U.S. Geological Survey research lab in Kansas. They are part of the agency's Lepidoptera Research Collection. USGS is asking residents in six states to send in … [+3070 chars]
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In late June, thousands of Wagner group paramilitary forces launched a mutiny in Russia. It seemed to constitute a significant challenge to Putin the first from within his own country since the invas… [+6247 chars]
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Antarctica is currently experiencing dramatic changes at unprecedented rates, marked by repeated extreme events. These include circum-Antarctic summer heatwaves and an autumn heatwave last year, with… [+5415 chars]
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On a Friday night in early July, Nikki Skuce heard from a neighbour the news she had been dreading: her small community of Smithers, British Columbia was on an evacuation alert due to an encroaching … [+4517 chars]
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Scientists have found a naturally occurring strain of bacteria which can help stop the transmission of malaria from mosquitoes to humans. They found it by chance, after a colony of mosquitoes in on… [+2807 chars]
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Like many people, I am concerned about the rapidly disappearing human element in our day-to-day interactions (Billionaires yearn for a life free of human contact and they are imposing this on the res… [+3615 chars]
Read MoreThe writer focused on Barbie in her college essay.Gary Trippeer <ul> <li>When I wrote my college-admissions essay, I took a risk and wrote: "I want to be like Barbie."</li> <li>I always liked how Ba… [+3767 chars]
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In space, everyone can hear you sing. Thats the premise of this weeks special musical episode of the Star Trek prequel Strange New Worlds, which swaps photon torpedoes for jaunty flashmobs as the cre… [+9538 chars]
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Enlarge/ A newly developed measuring device allows researchers to measure the electrical signal in the lobe of the Venus flytrap. 2 with Human beings and other animals send electrical signals via … [+3435 chars]
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Regulations imposed in 2020 by the United Nations's International Maritime Organization (IMO) have cut ships' sulfur pollution by more than 80% and improved air quality worldwide. The reduction has a… [+1476 chars]
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Adam Thirlwells first novel in eight years is set in Paris in the period around the French Revolution. When we first meet Celine, she is a peripheral figure at the court of the dauphin; at 19, she ha… [+11096 chars]
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A larger-than-life Michelle Donelan beams on to a screen in Googles London headquarters. The UK science and innovation secretary is appearing via video to praise the US tech behemoth for its plans to… [+13551 chars]
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Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, arrive at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario, Sept. 11, 2019. The Canadian prime minister and his wife announced Wednesday, A… [+4144 chars]
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The film Everything Everywhere All at Once won the 2023 Academy Award for Best Picture. In this episode from March 2023, just before the Oscars, Ian Sample spoke to the theoretical physicist and phil… [+208 chars]
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NASA estimates that its Earth science missions will generate around a quarter million terabytes of data in 2024 alone. In order for climate scientists and the research community efficiently dig thr… [+1504 chars]
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A fire truck heads toward the York Fire on July 30 in the Mojave National Preserve, Calif. Ty O'Neil/AP They may sound like something from science fiction, but "fire whirls" are in fact real. And … [+2797 chars]
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A Conservative minister has accused a Labour MP of misleading the public after he shared what she described as a fake image of the prime minister on Twitter. Karl Turner, the MP for Hull East, poste… [+1672 chars]
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Enlarge/ Ryugu's rubble pile includes some small fragments left over from our Solar System's formation. 3 with When JAXAs Hayabusa-1 spacecraft delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in la… [+4487 chars]
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Runaway Netflix hit Heartstopper was a huge hit with teenagers when the first series came out last year. But while it may have been targeted at a younger audience - just like Alice Oseman's hugely … [+7747 chars]
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Ive wailed before about the proliferation of self-checkout machines. But I will do so again, because mymood darkens every time I visit my local big supermarket. I first honoured the place with my bus… [+3467 chars]
Read MoreAn annotated still from the video. Divers have captured rare footage of a killer whale ripping out the liver from a shark.Compass Media/OceanSafaris.com/Insider <ul> <li>Divers captured rare footage… [+2405 chars]
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A typhoon has lashed southern Japan, forcing evacuations and cutting off power to one-third of homes on the Okinawa islands. Slow-moving Khanun - the third typhoon to hit east Asia in as many weeks… [+3063 chars]
Read MoreA diver clad in neon yellow swims beneath their boat in Oceania, Micronesia, with grey reef sharks silhouetted above.Westend61/Getty Images <ul> <li>You may have heard that wearing bright colors may… [+3542 chars]
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Attendees gaze at a painting of Henrietta Lacks at HBO's The HeLa Project Exhibit for The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks in 2017 in New York City. Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for HBO The family of… [+2421 chars]
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The first episode of Wonders of the Moon with Dara Ó Briain concentrates on what that eternally compelling sphere has meant to human culture, myth and spirituality. The second (of two) focuses on the… [+4339 chars]
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Its quite amazing, declares Eurostars Gwendoline Cazenave, fresh from St Pancras International station in London, where the cross-Channel rail operator has just launched its facial recognition check-… [+6746 chars]
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Deadheadingthe practice of chopping off a spent flowerhead from the plant has long been considered the way to keep plants blooming longer. Its based on the science that plants have a finite amount of… [+2384 chars]
Read MoreUkrainian troops fire a M777 howitzer near Zaporizhzhya on July 16.Gian Marco Benedetto/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images <ul> <li>Ukraine has amassed a polyglot arsenal of artillery thanks to donatio… [+5763 chars]
Read More24-year-old Rona Wang used Playground AI to created a professional LinkedIn photo.Courtesy of Rona Wang <ul> <li>An Asian MIT student was shocked when an AI tool turned her white for a professional … [+2874 chars]
Read MoreAn artists's impression of the Voyager probes next to a montage of examples of striking images of the solar system Voyager 1 and 2 took on their missions.NASA/JPL <ul> <li>NASA "inadvertently" cut c… [+3027 chars]
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Nasa has lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe billions of miles away from Earth after mistakenly severing contact with it, the space agency has revealed. Last month, the spacecraft - exploring spac… [+2324 chars]
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Those accustomed to complaining about the number of American writers nominated for the Booker prize since the widening of eligibility in 2014 will get a pleasant surprise this year: the sector that l… [+13233 chars]
Read MoreFirst it was drones and then HIMARS. With depressing regularity, a new wonder weapon has been touted as a game-changer for Ukraine, only for its luster to dim as Russia adapts to it. The latest exam… [+4598 chars]
Read MoreA man walks through a tunnel formed from crystals of permafrost outside the village of Tomtor.Maxim Shemetov/REUTERS <ul> <li>A roundworm thawed from 46,000-year-old permafrost recently started havi… [+4603 chars]
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Saleforce's chief impact officer, writing in Forbes: Code and computer programming — the backbone of modern business — has a long way to go before it can be called "green..." According to a recent r… [+2119 chars]
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Ron DeSantis is facing growing backlash in Florida as his presidential campaign flails across the country. Analysts and political opponents are seeing signs of a tail-off in his support, and evidence… [+6653 chars]
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Students could face tougher competition for places on some courses at leading universities this year after a massive expansion of applicants in the wake of the Covid pandemic, the president of Univer… [+8936 chars]
Read MoreMoMo Productions/Getty Images <ul> <li>Businesses from large companies to one-person startups are growing on the heels of strong GDP data.</li> <li>Consumers are spending more and businesses are inv… [+5996 chars]
Read MoreLyle B. Hansen and Chester Langway inspecting the sub-ice core from the Project Iceworm drilling.Photograph by David Atwood, U.S. Army-ERDC-CRREL, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives. <ul> <li… [+4218 chars]
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A painting by René Magritte has been discovered beneath another painting by the Belgian surrealist master to the excitement of experts. A portrait of a woman had been hidden under La Cinquième Saiso… [+3021 chars]
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We are rapidly becoming the all-star cast of the biggest disaster movie of all time, and tragically its a global success. Towering infernos blaze over Canada, the Canaries and Rhodes, Bangladesh, Chi… [+24797 chars]
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Did you know that you most likely never completely left your biological mothers body? That your cells crossed the placenta while you were growing and probably stuck around in various parts of her bod… [+6776 chars]
Read MoreA melted glacier revealed the remains of a long-lost German mountain climber this month.Denis Balibouse/Reuters <ul> <li>Swiss officials found the body of a climber missing for 37 years after portio… [+1477 chars]
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Rishi Sunak has been accused of showing disregard for the climate crisis after Whitehall officials warned that some of his key green pledges were already unachievable. With the prime minister facing… [+5843 chars]
Read MoreA humpback whale breaching off in the coast of Ilhabela, an archipelago in South-East Brazil, at the end of July.REUTERS/Leonardo Benassatto <ul> <li>In the 1980s, thousands of humpback whales were … [+1769 chars]
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After all the initial excitement over ChatGPT, the language-processing tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI), the use of chatbots is becoming more commonplace. So how do you train your AI for w… [+7213 chars]
Read MoreChristopher Nolan at an Oppenheimer premiere.Julien De Rosa/AFP/Getty <ul> <li>Christopher Nolan's new film 'Oppenheimer' features complex science.</li> <li>He brought on scientists to make sure he … [+2847 chars]
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6 with Reddit is campaigning to replace numerous longstanding moderators who were removed from their positions after engaging in API protests. Over the past week, a Reddit employee has posted to su… [+5694 chars]
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Enlarge/ Artist's illustration showing the orbital tracks of the European Space Agency's Aeolus satellite. 2 with The European Space Agency deftly guided one of its satellites toward a fiery re-en… [+4805 chars]
Read MoreGPTZero CEO Edward Tian and CTO Alex Cui.Edward Tian <ul> <li>Edward Tian first built GPTZero as his senior thesis project at Princeton during his winter break.</li> <li>Since then, he's turned it i… [+5224 chars]
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The microscopic animals were successfully woken from a state of suspended animation after researchers found them in the permafrost, or frozen soil, that flanks Siberia's northern Kolyma River. A radi… [+1091 chars]
Read MoreGuillermo Söhnlein (left), a cofounder of OceanGate Expeditions, has a plan to send 1,000 people to Venus' atmosphere by 2050.BOLD Community/NASA <ul> <li>Guillermo Söhnlein, a cofounder of OceanGat… [+8461 chars]
Read MoreGeneral morphology of P. kolymaensis, female.PLOS Genetics <ul> <li>Scientists revived a 46,000-year-old worm that was living in Siberian permafrost. </li> <li>When they brought it back to life, the… [+2186 chars]
Read MoreVarnish being removed from an old painting.Center Art Studio <ul> <li>Art restoration combines art history, chemistry, and studio art. </li> <li>Restoring a painting can take anywhere from a few hou… [+10281 chars]
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In a policy paper released this week, "Supporting Open Source and Open Science in the EU AI Act," the open-source AI leaders offered recommendations âoefor how to ensure the AI Act works for open sou… [+750 chars]
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Hosted by renowned science fiction author, activist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow, the EFF Awards ceremony will start at 6:30 pm PT on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023 at the Regency Lod… [+578 chars]
Read MoreInsider A marine research expedition in Antarctica.Joseph Marlow <ul> <li>The vast majority of the ocean remains unexplored but researchers are racing to change that.</li> <li>They believe water-ba… [+7108 chars]
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16 with Over the last several years, there have been growing concerns about the influence of social media on fostering political polarization in the US, with critical implications for democracy. Bu… [+3892 chars]
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Handbags and cars are more traditional status symbols, but in these topsy-turvy times the humble toilet roll is being treated with more reverence than you would expect for something used to wipe your… [+5590 chars]
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Rob Beschizza here at Boing Boing recently reported that the Grenon familyfather Mark and sons/brothers Jonathan, Jordan, and Joseph, who made millions selling the bleaching agent "Miracle Mineral So… [+5157 chars]
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Even from the safety of her home, the film-maker Alice Winocours experience of the Paris terror attacks in November 2015 was terrifying. Her younger brother, Jérémie, was hiding in a back room at the… [+7050 chars]
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“Gravitational lensing” shows the effects of dark matter, even if we can’t observe the matter itself.NASA The single biggest question in physics today, and in arguably all of science, is seemingly a… [+9370 chars]
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Eager to deliver the best content to space fans, NASA is about to overhaul its online presence with a new streaming service and fresh designs across all of its websites. The U.S. space agency droppe… [+1916 chars]
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Leon Marchand après sa victoire sur 200 m 4 nages, à Fukuoka (Japon), le 27 juillet 2023. YUICHI YAMAZAKI / AFP A ce rythme, il va falloir songer à rebaptiser le Marine Messe, vaste complexe aquatiq… [+3306 chars]
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Le Britannique Jim Skea, enseignant en énergies durables, lors dune session du Groupe intergouvernemental dexperts sur lévolution du climat (GIEC), le 2 août 2019 à Genève. FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP La… [+2654 chars]
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In case anyone was unawares, racist space laser expert Marjorie Taylor Greene is also a virologist who specializes in Covid-19 as the woman of science proves when she comes to the rescue of fellow ra… [+1040 chars]
Read MoreDonald Trump and Ron DeSantis.Alex Wong/Getty Images; John Tully for The Washington Post via Getty Images <ul> <li>Ron DeSantis hoped that Donald Trump's legal woes would hurt his opponent, per The … [+4942 chars]
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A large video monitor on the campus of Meta, Facebook's parent company, in Menlo Park, Calif. in February. New research about Facebook shows its impact on political polarization. Justin Sullivan/Get… [+9944 chars]
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The city of angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honor: the Los Angeles thread millipede. The tiny arthropod was found just underground by natura… [+3872 chars]
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Nearly three years ago Meta announced it was partnering with more than a dozen independent researchers to study the impact Facebook and Instagram had on the 2020 election. Both Meta and the researc… [+4918 chars]
Read MoreArtificial intelligence is transforming the work landscape.Nitat Termmee/Getty Images <ul> <li>Artificial intelligence is altering the workforce in unpredictable ways.</li> <li>While companies and w… [+11188 chars]
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Ryan Graves, executive director of Americans for Safe Aerospace (left), retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch and retired Navy Cmdr. David Fravor are sworn in during a House Oversight and Accountabilit… [+8312 chars]
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When moving house and cities some years ago there was a conspicuous absence in so many of the potential homes we inspected bookshelves. And where there are no bookshelves it usually means there are … [+4844 chars]
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Protests have a funny way of kicking off when the mercury soars. The summer of 1967 is best known as the summer of love. It was a time when hippies flocked to Americas west coast to protest war, take… [+6312 chars]
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Una noticia se ha extendido como la pólvora esta semana entre investigadores y curiosos: un equipo de investigadores coreanos había asegurado haber encontrado uno de los santos griales de la física d… [+3735 chars]
Read MoreTampa, Florida. Chumbley Photography/Getty Images <ul><li>Tampa, Florida, is becoming a popular place to move for younger millennials and Gen Zers.</li><li>Insider spoke with five people under 30 wh… [+10556 chars]
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In an exclusive interview with Guardian Seascape last Saturday, James Cameron argued that it is less wrong to mine the deep sea than mining on land. Ive seen an awful lot of seafloor, said the Titani… [+7915 chars]
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Enlarge/ A crew of six passengers, including former professional football player and television anchor Michael Strahan, stroll past the Blue Origin New Shepard booster they rode into space in Decembe… [+4346 chars]
Read MoreMilitary and experts agree: the US is nowhere near ready for a war with China.Derek Zheng for Insider <ul> <li>The US has started bracing its economy for a potential conflict with China, but it's a … [+14037 chars]
Read MoreWealthy travelers have been charting yachts with EYOS Expeditions to explore remote and desirable destinations like Antarctica starting at $225,000 a week.EYOS Expeditions <ul> <li>EYOS Expeditions … [+8374 chars]
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2022 was the warmest year on record in the UK, the Met Office has confirmed, with experts warning the unprecedented heat is a sign of things to come. It was also the first year in which a temperatur… [+8343 chars]
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The list of complaints made by female students living at the womens hostel in the south of Mumbai is depressingly long and goes back years. The women were regularly harassed by male staff, by the dru… [+10864 chars]
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How to respond to the avalanche of record-breaking extreme weather and temperatures terrorising the planet? For many scientists it is a moment of genuine despair, but also a time to resist climate do… [+5956 chars]
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A pill for postpartum depression led to meaningful improvements in depression symptoms, according to a late-stage study published Wednesday in The American Journal of Psychiatry. The pill, zuranolon… [+3895 chars]
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Presumed dead for years, CGB Spender surprisingly appeared at today's historic congressional hearing on UFOs. Spender was seated behind whistleblower David Grusch, a former member of the US Defense D… [+679 chars]
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The Macedonia Baptist Church in Mount Vernon, New York livestreamed the services held Tuesday to say goodbye and pay tribute to CBS New York meteorologist Elise Finch, who died July 16 at the age of … [+1653 chars]
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When someone asks us to do something we don’t want to do, we often say yes even though we want to say no, because we think that saying no will feel terrible. But my guest, Dr. Vanessa Patrick, says t… [+1003 chars]
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"La corriente del Golfo podría colapsar tan pronto como 2025", "Las corrientes oceánicas que regulan la temperatura global podrían pararse en 2025 con graves consecuencias para el clima" o "el cambio… [+3920 chars]
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A former intelligence official claimed the U.S. government has been covering up a longstanding defense program that collects and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and has found "n… [+4862 chars]
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Read transcript What if we could harness the power and value of all that we discard? Circular economy builder Garry Cooper presents a compelling vision for transforming cities into sustainable, circ… [+3532 chars]
Read MoreGen Z hates boomers, everyone hates millennials, and no one thinks about Gen X. Why are we so obsessed with talking about generations?Chelsea Jia Feng/Insider Gen Z is soft, millennials are embarras… [+14053 chars]
Read MoreChien-Shiung Wu in a laboratory at Columbia University in 1958.Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images <ul> <li>Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese physicist who was instrumental to the Manhattan Project.</li> … [+6035 chars]
Read MoreAround the end of 2016, Bourhan Yassin questioned whether he was on the right path. He had been working in the world of tech startups, most recently at MarkaVIP, a successful e-commerce company that … [+6230 chars]
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AT&T continued its subscriber growth streak by adding more phone and broadband customers in the second quarter of the year. The Dallas telecom company added 326,000 postpaid phone net additions … [+1959 chars]
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What was long predicted is now happening. Earths weather systems are increasingly disrupted and destructive, as a consequence of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosph… [+3347 chars]
Read MoreTrader Joe's captains bag six-figure base salaries that start at around $104,000.Joe Raedle/Getty Images <ul><li>Many respected jobs come with a high paycheck, but salaries in some fields may surpri… [+6876 chars]
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By Mark Trevelyan (Reuters) - A century after his father and mother fled Russia to escape the Bolsheviks, renowned mathematician Alexey Sossinsky found history repeating itself when President Vladim… [+4228 chars]
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Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here A coalition of a half-dozen open source AI stakeholders, Hugging Face, GitHub, EleutherAI, Creative Commons,… [+1275 chars]
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Ground beef contaminated with salmonella has sickened at least 16 people, including six hospitalized, in four Northeastern states, federal health officials said Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Cont… [+969 chars]
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Waste plastic has become a major problem worldwide, harming ecosystems through littering and other forms of pollution. Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a bioplastic tha… [+6994 chars]
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In the comedic, dystopian film Idiocracy, set in 2505, all water in the United States has been replaced with a Gatorade-like drink called Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator. They even water the crops with… [+10783 chars]
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We thank our sponsor for making this content possible; it is not written by the editorial staff nor does it necessarily reflect its views. TL;DR: If you're looking to pick up a sick new hobby, the W… [+1948 chars]
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` In the sixth season premiere of Netflixs Black Mirror, a fictional streaming service named Streamberry uses artificial intelligence to deepfake an actors likeness onto a doubles body while creatin… [+2897 chars]
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As the global demand for semiconductors continues to rise, the European Union (EU) is stepping up its efforts to stay competitive in this crucial industry. The EU has recently approved a groundbreaki… [+6235 chars]
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Two things. First, why are Republicans opposed to capitalism that pursues new and innovative ways to make money? Second, when it comes to the climate crisis, why not do something about it? What is … [+10987 chars]
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Here's a graph that shows the seasonal change in Antarctic sea ice coverage since 1978, The line in red is for 2023. You can see that it's far below the other years. (Source: VISHOP). To get a feel … [+1083 chars]
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If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.Real Barbie fans know that the iconic blond fashion doll has had a long cinematic career, decades b… [+38398 chars]
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Understanding the science of what’s going on can help us counteract these self-sabotaging tendencies. "> Robin, a perennial high achiever, has just been promoted to her first leadership position… [+7353 chars]
Read MoreThe mushroom cloud of the first atomic explosion at Trinity Test Site near Alamagordo, New Mexico.AP Photo/File <ul> <li>The Manhattan Project displaced some New Mexicans and employed others at Los … [+8643 chars]
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Over the past few decades, climate scientists have made huge strides in understanding the future climate. But after recent weeks of extreme heat and devastating floods its clear that, although climat… [+5806 chars]
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This one takes a bit more effort, said Lorna Hogger, energetically spinning a wheel to slowly lift rubber balls into a rollercoaster network of metal tubes high in the air. They whiz round and thud o… [+4067 chars]
Read MoreSteps away from the public restrooms in Yosemite Village, a buzzy stop in Yosemite National Parks iconic valley, sits a brown metal dumpster. Visitors reach up to open the trash chute. Their peanut b… [+2812 chars]
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Over the years of true wireless earbuds, Sony has consistently kept its place among the best with its 1000X series. Just when it seems like others may gain ground through software tricks or beefed-up… [+3941 chars]
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Ive been trying to cheat on my wife with an artificial intelligence all week, and its proving so difficult I might have to resort to an affair with a human being. Its not that I dont have options. T… [+8535 chars]
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The dangerous heat waves currently plaguing North America and Europe would be "virtually impossible" without anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change, according to a new report. Intense weeks-… [+4573 chars]
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How bad are the fires this year? Roaring fires have ripped through Greece, belching thick clouds of choking smoke and forcing tens of thousands of people to flee. The area of the country burned by … [+3449 chars]
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Germany's Bayer AG says it expects to take a 2.5bn ($2.8bn; £2.2bn) hit from a slower demand for glyphosate-based products, including its controversial weedkiller Roundup. The announcement came as t… [+2270 chars]
Read MoreErnest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images <ul> <li>Officials o… [+22813 chars]
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Last month, theoretical physicist Avi Loeb made headlines with the sensational claim that tiny spherules recovered from the bottom of the ocean were probably of alien origin. Its most likely a techno… [+6074 chars]
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The summer’s most popular history-related film is Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, about the theoretical physicist and atomic bomb mastermind J. Robert Oppenheimer. The movie comes 78 yea… [+7071 chars]
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Enlarge/ An AI-generated image of a chatbot in front of library shelves. 2 with On Thursday, OpenAI announced a new beta feature for ChatGPT that allows users to provide custom instructions that t… [+4111 chars]
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Interesting. Frustrating. Potentially even “credible.” But nothing that science can work on in its current form. That was how physicists and astronomers interviewed by The Hill described recent all… [+9869 chars]
Read MoreThis DJI Mavic model drone is souped up with a small explosive device that it can drop on an unsuspecting target.Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images <ul> <li>Russia is teaching schoolc… [+6490 chars]
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Two Australian women have each been fined $2,300 for interacting with wongari (dingoes) on K'gari (also known as Fraser Island) in Australia, reports the Queensland Department of Environment and Scie… [+1020 chars]
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Yes, Britains housing market is in a mess. No, that does not mean 75 years of town planning should be torn up just to win the Tories a few more seats. Todays speeches on housebuilding by the levellin… [+4064 chars]
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Adopting eight lifestyle changes, such as eating well and getting a good nights sleep, could add more than 20 years to your life, research suggests. The study found that people were likely to live l… [+8130 chars]
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It just wont stay dead! reads the subtitle of Benders Big Score, the bombastic feature-length return of Futurama after it was canceled in 2003. Looking back, the tagline seems like quite the statem… [+9743 chars]
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There's a massive "gravity hole" in the Indian Ocean where the pull of gravity is less than everywhere else on Earth and the sea level is is 100 meters lower than the planetary average. WTF, geologis… [+1440 chars]
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A vendor weighs green vein kratom to sell by the gram at a vape shop in Lake Worth, Fla. Kratom is derived from the dried leaves of a tree in the coffee family. It's been used as traditional medicine… [+7738 chars]
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There's a lot of hype around ChatGPT and AI models like it. It can take a single prompt and transform it into an entirely new piece of content. It can research virtually any topic, and deliver its fi… [+8864 chars]
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand Naomi Girma cant help herself. She watches a lot of soccer. Like, a lot a lot. No surprise, given its both her job and her passion. But try as she might, she cant just "watch" … [+4569 chars]
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The human mind is a mystery machine. It fires and wires in ways that are still enigmatic to those who study it. And among its many complex and fascinating processes, intuition is behind quite an opaq… [+7089 chars]
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IWAKI, Japan -- Beach season has started across Japan, which means seafood for holiday makers and good times for business owners. But in Fukushima, that may end soon. Within weeks, the tsunami-hit F… [+8920 chars]
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It was an announcement that astounded the world of science and made headlines around the globe. Researchers reported last month that they had discovered burials, carved symbols and tools made by an a… [+5979 chars]
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In the autumn of 1971, an ambitious young engineer from Talca, central Chile, strode into the lobby of the exclusive Athenaeum Club on Londons Pall Mall to meet Stafford Beer, an eccentric Surrey ins… [+5520 chars]
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Exploring the greatest depths of the ocean is safer than getting an elevator and safer than getting on an airplane James Cameron has said. But the Canadian director of Hollywood blockbusters added th… [+6673 chars]
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Millions of wild birds may have died from bird flu globally in the latest outbreak, researchers warn, as the viral disease ravages South America, with 200,000 deaths recorded in Peru alone. The high… [+6777 chars]
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Concerns about the potential risks and lack of transparency in the rapidly expanding field of artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted the Biden administration to take action. To address these issu… [+7608 chars]
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A brutal heatwave is persisting throughout much of the US, with cities across the south-west reaching all-time records for hottest consecutive days. Intense heatwaves are becoming more frequent as a … [+3886 chars]
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A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is "unprecedented". Dangerous heatwaves sweeping Europe coul… [+5411 chars]
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Austin, Texas, construction workers dig on a hot day in August 2021. Last month, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill that overturns local ordinances in some Texas cities that mandate regular rest breaks f… [+7868 chars]
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The Clarion Writer's Workshop is generally considered to be the leading training ground for science fiction and fantasy writers. Not that I'm biased I attended the program myself in 2013, where I hon… [+2478 chars]
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Artificial intelligence is opening the door to a disturbing trend of people creating realistic images of children in sexual settings, which could increase the number of cases of sex crimes against ki… [+4896 chars]
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Q: Oppenheimer's name appears in the early applications of quantum mechanics and the theory of black holes. How good a physicist was he?A: Well, he was no Einstein. And he's not even up to the level … [+2601 chars]
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5 with On Tuesday, researchers from Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley published a research paper that purports to show changes in GPT-4's outputs over time. The paper fuels… [+2836 chars]
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There has been a lot of interest and some fear in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years. As the limits of what can be achieved in technology are pushed further and further, questi… [+7518 chars]
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Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, and the series of content policy changes that ensued, has led to a dramatic spike in hateful, violent and inaccurate posts on the platform, according to researchers. … [+9572 chars]
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The prime ministers science advisers have demanded more money for public health, including creating a large cohort of community health workers to run test and trace when the next pandemic strikes. T… [+3682 chars]
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The Asian flu of 1957-58 was a deadly pandemic with a broader reach for severe outcomes than Covid-19 of 2020. It killed between 1 and 4 million people worldwide, and 116,000 in the US in a time with… [+9674 chars]
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The approach of housing all M.S. services together, as at Sadiqs practice, can seem less than revolutionary, but at a recent patients as teachers session at the Barlo Multiple Sclerosis Center, at St… [+13756 chars]
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Neoliberalism has been called a political swear word, and it gets blamed for pretty much every socioeconomic ill we have, from bank failures and income inequality to the gig economy and demagogic pop… [+12419 chars]
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The claim: Comparing June 2006 and 2023 Arctic sea ice levels shows 'emissions-driven warming is a hoax' A June 17 tweet (direct link, archive link) shows Arctic sea ice extent images from June 16, … [+5634 chars]
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PHOENIX — Phoenix’s relentless streak of dangerously hot days was finally poised to smash a record for major U.S. cities on Tuesday, the 19th straight day the desert city was to see temperatures soar… [+6368 chars]
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Uljan Sharka, founder and CEO of iGenius, has spent the last seven years working on language models and generative AI. To this point, its been all about the technology, from the size of the model to … [+6932 chars]
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Sean Hollister exclusively paws at Framework's 16-inch laptop, which offers premium style and form but also a level of user access–to repair, upgrade and customize–you'll never see out of Cupertino o… [+964 chars]
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For anyone looking to get into web development, the 2023 All-in-One Raspberry Pi and Arduino Developer Bundle might be a good place to start. Featuring nine courses, software engineer and entrepreneu… [+1247 chars]
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Grant Shapps has condemned the neglect of Britains nuclear industry as a colossal mistake as he earmarked £20bn for a fleet of new reactors but admitted it would take six years to even make a decisio… [+9422 chars]
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Canons mirrorless EOS R mirrorless camera family now sits at a healthy 11 members, but most of those to date have been high-end models priced at over $1,000. Recently, though, the company has been wo… [+5652 chars]
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Despite close competition between the two, live TV streaming services may prove to be more affordable than monthly cable fees. These streaming apps not only offer a wider range of channels than anten… [+25335 chars]
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On 22 November 2020, Heider Garcia, the elections administrator for Tarrant county, Texas, was awake in his living room until around 3am, unable to sleep over fears that a stranger might show up at h… [+17742 chars]
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Why are President Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress so eager to welcome Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel, to Washington this week? Because hes an Israeli leader not named Benjamin Netanya… [+5901 chars]
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NASA is likely to face some serious money issues in the upcoming year that could affect the space agencys science program, but not its Artemis Moon plans. At the same time, NASAs wildly expensive Mar… [+4460 chars]
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Enlarge/ H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man inspired a 1933 film. It's just one cultural example of the human fascination with invisibility. 9 with There's a well-known story in Plato's Republic in wh… [+3960 chars]
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Coffee-clutching, bleary-eyed Australian sports fans are embracing the immortal words of Jon Bon Jovi this month: You can sleep when youre dead. Thats because July is delivering an RSL-sized smörgås… [+5461 chars]
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Last year, thousands faced disaster when trying to buy tickets for Taylor Swifts Eras tour in the US. Fans said the presale access codes they were given didnt work properly and the Ticketmaster websi… [+9504 chars]
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Do you remember your first love? Mine had soulful eyes, a shy smile, and I thought he was beautiful. I spent months trying to put myself in Brads way. He was in the same tutorial class at secondary s… [+12558 chars]
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Homeowners worries about falling house prices are affecting the national mood, according to a poll supported by a separate survey showing a small drop in asking prices. Consumer confidence fell by 1… [+7783 chars]
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In a recent post for her Thesis Whisperer blog, Inger Mewburn described the evolution of social media as a process of enshittification. The term, borrowed from Cory Doctorow, perfectly captures the … [+5227 chars]
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One of the most distinguished former political science professors at the University of Tehran, who was sentenced to a year in jail for tweeting about the alleged poisoning of schoolchildren, has said… [+6123 chars]
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I guess you wouldnt call me a shark hugger, Greg Skomal says from Cape Cod. Im a classically trained fisheries biologist. I believe that if you have sustainable fisheries, you should allow people to … [+8387 chars]
Read MoreYour brain is a part of your body. It's important to keep your body healthy if you want to protect your brain.Westend61 / Getty Images <ul> <li>Neuroscientists explain how they keep healthy brains w… [+5219 chars]
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Since 1937, four generations of the Figliolini family have scooped their handmade ice-cream on the seafront, from April to October. Theres no vanilla here they let the taste of the cooked milk shine.… [+6159 chars]
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Wikipedia notes that "Today, the Moon has no active volcanoes even though a significant amount of magma may persist under the lunar surface."But this week the New York Times reports that "The rocks b… [+1837 chars]
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An artist's impression of the James Webb Space Telescope.NASA <ul> <li>The James Webb Space Telescope has been sending us information from outer space for a year. </li> <li>We've seen stars forming,… [+3230 chars]
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It's only funny until someone loses an eye. Or in the case of conversational AI companies, until copyright holders say they're not OK with having their work used without permission to train the large… [+11330 chars]
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Victoria Amelina stands next to a cherry tree in the backyard of Volodymyr Vakulenko, a Ukrainian children's book author, where he buried his diary of living under Russian occupation in Kapytolivka b… [+12581 chars]
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The dust, which came from distant stars and drifted through space for millions or billions of years, could provide clues about how the solar system formed, according to Ann Nguyen, a cosmochemist at … [+1926 chars]
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Sir Patrick Vallance is sitting in a back office at the Natural History Museum talking about his childhood love of dinosaurs. I was obsessed, says the UKs former chief scientific adviser from behind … [+13113 chars]
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Pride celebrations have long been a small but raucous affair in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid. Setting off from a singular triangle-shaped plaza, a dozen drummers lead hundreds through the … [+11720 chars]
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More than 56% of the world's oceans have changed color to an extent that cannot be explained by natural variability, said a team of researchers, led by scientists from the National Oceanography Cente… [+1208 chars]
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Each Saturday morning as a young child growing up in San Jose, California, Naomi Girma would show up to the park to play a version of soccer that was as informal as you can think, she says now. The … [+9211 chars]
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In the hours before dawn on Fridays crisp winter morning, thousands of New Zealanders rose in the dark, donned woollen hats and scarves and ventured outdoors to scan the eastern horizon for the appea… [+6971 chars]
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Education strikes at the heart of what makes us human. It drives the intellectual capacity and prosperity of nations. It has developed the minds that took us to the moon and eradicated previously inc… [+4077 chars]
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The scientific rule of thumb is simple: When you make a bold claim, you need significant research to back it up. Telling us that eating vegetables is healthy can be justified by a fairly simple high… [+427 chars]
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When Christopher Nolan releases a new movie, its an event. Few filmmakers, even our most successful and well-known ones, carry the weight, expectations, and name recognition that Nolan does these day… [+5150 chars]
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The phrase artificial Intelligence was coined by pointy-heads at MIT in 1955. Back then, it referred to an obscure field of computer science devoted to then-hypothetical programs that could engage in… [+3449 chars]
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The Perseverance Rover has found evidence of organic compounds in the Jezero Crater on Mars. Although this isnt the smoking gun proving once and for all that Mars once hosted life these compounds cou… [+3112 chars]
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Enlarge/ Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney. Scientists believe a buried saltwater reservoir is partly responsible for the discoloration, which is a form of reduced… [+3145 chars]
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This May 19, 2019, photo provided by Dr. John Jones shows Mikala Jones at Surf Ranch in Lemoore, Calif., holding a surfboard his brother Daniel Jones made using material from the agave plant. Dr. Jo… [+4797 chars]
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Pastor Michael Shover of Christ the Redeemer Church in Pella, left, argues with Ryan Maher, of Des Moines, as protesters clashed in the Iowa State Capitol rotunda on Tuesday, July 11, 2023. Zach Boy… [+5652 chars]
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Republican presidential contender Doug Burgum, who's governor of North Dakota, is offering to send people $20 gift cards if they donate as little as $1 to his campaign. He's seen here last month spea… [+5429 chars]
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Republican presidential contender Doug Burgum, who's governor of North Dakota, is offering to send people $20 gift cards if they donate as little as $1 to his campaign. He's seen here last month spea… [+5429 chars]
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Enlarge/ An artist's illustration of NASA's two Janus spacecraft as they would have appeared in space. 7 with Two small spacecraft should have now been cruising through the Solar System on the way… [+3899 chars]
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Many of these changes affect pathways that control cell division, structure and internal messaging -- leaving the cells poised to go bad long before any visible signs or symptoms occur. The study is … [+979 chars]
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Major economies are on the cusp of an AI revolution that could trigger job losses in skilled professions such as law, medicine and finance, according to an influential international organisation. Th… [+3042 chars]
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The site to represent the start of the Anthropocene epoch on Earth has been selected by scientists. It will mark the end of 11,700 years of a stable global environment in which the whole of human civ… [+5511 chars]
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The academic attainment of primary schoolchildren in England remains significantly lower than before Covid according to the latest Sats results, which are virtually unchanged from last year. The pro… [+8565 chars]
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Name: The ultimate swearword. Age: Ber! Mind your own business. Sorry, age is just the way we normally start things around here. Ber, though, what does that mean? Its short for banger. What, as in… [+2204 chars]
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Seafood groups representing a third of the worlds tuna trade as well as major supermarket suppliers are the latest groups to call for a pause on deep-sea mining, after a new study published today sho… [+3314 chars]
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Read MoreRepublican Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, seen here before objecting to the 2020 election results on January 6, 2021, has sworn off corporate PAC money.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images <ul> <… [+2876 chars]
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>"Why Are Vietnam's Schools So Good?" Oh, I don't know, just a guess, but maybe they 1) Maintain discipline in the classroom/school.2) Focus on the important subjects like language, science, and… [+213 chars]
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This article is part of the Guardians Womens World Cup 2023 Experts Network, a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 32 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running… [+10939 chars]
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A new generation of weight-loss drugs are being touted as an exciting breakthrough in the fight against obesity. Users say the drugs have helped them lose weight rapidly, and even stopped them consta… [+876 chars]
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The release of 2018s Black Panther continues to make an impact on Disneys output. You can see how the success of that movie (and its own sub-franchise) led to the creation of Shang-Chi and Ms. Marvel… [+5845 chars]
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Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Google invented a lot of core AI technology, and now the company’s turning to Demis to get back in front of the AI race for AI breakthroughs. Toda… [+58092 chars]
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Enlarge/ Rimrock Draw Rockshelter has been excavated since 2011. 10 with Stone tools unearthed from a rock shelter in Southern Oregon were last used more than 18,000 years ago, radiocarbon dating … [+3408 chars]
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If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.For a movie about Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs, 65sure came and went without much fanfare. The fu… [+7699 chars]
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Companies should drop offsetting-based environmental claims and adopt a climate contribution model instead, according to a new quality standard. In a new code of practice, the Voluntary Carbon Marke… [+9691 chars]
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Humans have searched for ways to live longer, healthier lives pretty much since there have been humans. In recent decades, scientists have joined the effort. In animals, studies suggest that slowing… [+10061 chars]
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Flashy automated solutions struggle to find a foothold in the, but there are technological advances taking place. "> In 1910, the French artist Villemard created a series of illustrations imagin… [+12656 chars]
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I guess Ill just freeze my eggs. Perhaps youve heard your partner, friend or daughter say this, or have said it yourself, throwing your hands up in real or mock despair over the biological clock. It … [+6453 chars]
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If you give a caterpillar a leaf, chances are hes going to tell you about the state of the world. This is what chemical ecologist Tara Massad has learned from collecting thousands of caterpillars in… [+5787 chars]
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In an old Saturday Night Live skit, Chevy Chase, portraying Gerald Ford, says It was my understanding that there would be no math. Half a century later, it seems like this has become Americas nationa… [+16391 chars]
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Do people with severe depression have a right to accurate information about antidepressants? I suspect most people would answer “yes”. There is a general understanding that individuals who suffer fro… [+18349 chars]
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There’s an emerging scientific discipline dedicated to the study of science itself. The book that introduced me to the field is called, simply, The Science of Science and is written by Dashun Wang an… [+20656 chars]
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If the United States was a country that valued women and girls, or that understood the moral gravity of misogyny, then there would be statues to people like Caitlin Bernard. The Indiana doctor has lo… [+6594 chars]
Read MoreThis illustration provided by the ATLAS research group of the University of Seville in July 2023 depicts "The Ivory Lady" who was discovered in a tomb in Valencina, Spain, dated between 3,200 and 2,2… [+3015 chars]
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G/O Media is the owner of top sites like Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, and the Onion. Last month they announced "modest tests" of AI-generated content on their sites — and it didn't go over well within th… [+2562 chars]
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Te traemos una colección de 60 cursos online gratis que puedes hacer cuando quieras, una manera de intentar aprovechar estas vacaciones de verano para aprender algo nuevo. Se trata de cursos que está… [+17670 chars]
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Science fiction has always dealt with worst-case scenarios when imagining our possible futures, and the climate has often formed the backdrop of the human struggles. Some of the biggest names writin… [+10679 chars]
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The harassment started to intensify as the TV meteorologist Chris Gloninger did more reporting on the climate crisis during local newscasts outraged emails and even a threat to show up at his house. … [+4521 chars]
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Four years ago, Google claimed to be the first company to achieve "quantum supremacy" — a milestone point at which quantum computers surpass existing machines. This was challenged at the time by riva… [+797 chars]
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One of my earliest childhood memories is of the bog man. In the mid-1980s, a body was recovered from a peat bog in Cheshire after a violent death he had lain there since the iron age, and when he was… [+4843 chars]
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As well as observing specific objects like distant galaxies and planets here in our solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope is also being used to perform wide-scale surveys of parts of the sky. … [+3649 chars]
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When the Inquisition persecuted Galileo for advancing the rude truth that Earth is not the center of the universe, the charge against him was heresy — the same charge on which Joan of Arc was burned … [+9040 chars]
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Yerim Kim, a high school sophomore in Seoul, is anxious. Just one year away from taking the most important exam of her life, the 17-year-old’s battle plan has been thrown into uncertainty, ironical… [+8332 chars]
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The fun part about crycoolers is that there are so many different and exciting ways to make stuff cold, based on a wide variety of physics. This is why after first exploring the Stirling/GM cycle and… [+1694 chars]
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Earlier this year, Arkane Austins Redfall entered the pantheon of terrible game launches. Taking up its place alongside Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 76, No Mans Sky, and many more, the long-awaited Xbox e… [+8216 chars]
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Every year, millions of employees across the United States complete job-related courses in compliance, soft skills, upselling, product training, and more. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, com… [+4287 chars]
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In a groundbreaking study, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed an automated machine learning system called BioAutoMATED that can generate AI models for biolo… [+6719 chars]
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Artificial intelligence has progressed so rapidly in recent months that leading researchers have signed an open letter urging an immediate pause in its development, plus stronger regulation, due to t… [+14134 chars]
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Ask for a lineup of the most popular European coastal destinations and you might expect the usual suspects: Venice, Lisbon and Nice. Travellers from the era of the Grand Tour might have added Biarrit… [+8540 chars]
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Hernan Diaz, 50, was born in Buenos Aires and lives in Brooklyn. A finalist in 2018 for the Pulitzer prize in fiction with his debut In the Distance, which the New Yorker called an offbeat western, h… [+5753 chars]
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A debut author struggling with sales became Amazons No 1 bestseller this week after a video of the writer at a quiet book signing went viral on TikTok. 58-year-old Shawn Warner was sitting at a tabl… [+7850 chars]
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The UN secretary general has said that climate change is out of control, as an unofficial analysis of data showed that average world temperatures in the seven days to Wednesday were the hottest week … [+3817 chars]
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The list of countries calling for a pause on deep-sea mining continued to grow this week ahead of a key moment that mining companies hope will launch the fledgling industry, and its opponents hope co… [+6637 chars]
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Before we had TikTok dance challenges, we had the Macarena, a four-step dance routine that required little to no effort and could be performed by just about anyone. The English vocal track to the son… [+1229 chars]
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Artificial intelligence is replacing hundreds of jobs across the U.S., creating skepticism and uncertainty about the future of humanity. It is a daunting development as even the creator of AI has war… [+2053 chars]
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The James Webb space telescope has given scientists the capability to discover celestial objects they wouldn't have been able to otherwise, such as ancient galaxies that theoretically shouldn't exist… [+2692 chars]
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Chemicals that dont break down easily in the environment have made their way into most of our bodies (whether we know it or not) and are present in about 45% of the countrys water supply, according t… [+5332 chars]
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Future generations will know the legend of White Gladis. In late May, as America was struggling with the demise of HBO Max, social media picked up on another story: a group of orcas, possibly orches… [+2654 chars]
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Most celestial objectsfrom stars and nebulas to quasars and galaxiesemit light at a range of wavelengths. Some include visible light, which is how astronomers are able to photograph them with space t… [+3527 chars]
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Astronomers imaging the cosmos with the Webb Space Telescope have found the most distant active supermassive black hole yet. The black hole was seen as it was around 570 million years after the Big B… [+3585 chars]
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Just Stop Oils lead funder Dale Vince has warned that more high-profile sport is on the organisations target list as it seeks to jolt more people out of sleepwalking amid a worsening climate crisis. … [+10147 chars]
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Climate campaigners have condemned as cynical comments from the boss of energy company Shell suggesting that cutting the worlds oil and gas production would be dangerous and irresponsible. Wael Sawa… [+4092 chars]
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The quiz master went to see Pulp at the weekend, and it was a wonderful sun-drenched nostalgic experience meeting up with old friends and old songs. That hasnt really got anything to do with this wee… [+491 chars]
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On his first day in office, President Joe Biden announced that his administration planned to scrutinize a Trump-era decision to allow the continued use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide that can damage ch… [+17089 chars]
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Raleigh, North Carolina, is known for its gorgeous oak trees, giving it its City of Oaks nickname, but it also wants to be known as the Smithsonian of the South for its art, history and science museu… [+20077 chars]
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Recent advances such as Open AIs GPT-4 chatbot have awakened the world to how sophisticated artificial intelligence has become and how rapidly the field is advancing. Could this powerful new technolo… [+19630 chars]
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Just like some people, elephants seem to prefer a rich palette of foods, research out this week suggests. Studying decades-old poop, researchers found that elephants tend to have diverse diets that c… [+3209 chars]
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Eye health and eyesight go hand in hand. Seeing an eye doctor regularly for an eye exam is essential for overall health -- especially if you already have vision problems or are at high risk for them … [+5853 chars]
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World temperature records have been broken for a second day in a row, data suggests, as experts issued a warning that this years warmest days are still to come and with them the warmest days ever rec… [+8431 chars]
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — The U.S. citizenship test is being updated, and some immigrants and advocates worry the changes will hurt test-takers with lower levels of English proficiency. The naturalization t… [+8871 chars]
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Se veía venir que el verano de 2023 (en el hemisferio norte) sería un periodo de récords. Y no hemos tardado en alcanzar el primero. Según la Administración Oceánica y Atmosférica de Estados Unidos (… [+3863 chars]
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The yacht Diversity leaves the harbour of Aqaba, the only coastal town in Jordan. To the right is the Israeli resort of Eilat, framed by barren mountains; in the Red Sea, a boxfish makes leisurely ci… [+13771 chars]
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As Britains National Health Service turns 75, six people share how the NHS has saved their lives over seven decades, thanks to pioneering medical advances, swift action in emergencies and staff who w… [+8382 chars]
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ADELAIDE, Australia -- A former Australian rules football player has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a landmark finding for female professional athletes. The Concussion Legac… [+3108 chars]
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Colleen Shogan loves being surrounded by documents. The affable former political science professor is standing in her sunlit office next to the original copy of the joint resolution Congress passed t… [+2944 chars]
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The regulator charged with upholding professional standards in UK medical practice is being sued by a junior doctor over its refusal to investigate a cardiologist for spreading allegedly harmful misi… [+8765 chars]
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For a variety of reasonsincluding the environmental impactthere has been more of an emphasis on growing native wildflowers, herbs, and other plants in mainstream gardening over the past several years… [+2372 chars]
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For a longtime fan of ND Stevensons webcomic turned graphic novel, Nimona someone who followed the original comics release week to week from 2012 to 2014, and became part of the growing fan base hang… [+6631 chars]
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The endlessly simmering conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, exploding into unbridled warfare this week in the embattled West Bank city of Jenin, threatens a broader, more far-reaching catastr… [+6113 chars]
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Enlarge/ Artist's conception of the early Solar System, which was at risk of a nearby supernova. 7 with Stars are thought to form within enormous filaments of molecular gas. Regions where one or m… [+4155 chars]
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Sustainable design is a paradigm that emphasizes the impact that design practices and workflows have on the environment with the goal of reducing carbon emissions. The design decisions we make are re… [+19044 chars]
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Its an upgrade. In the same way as you upgrade your iPhone, we need to upgrade Britain. Labour MP Darren Jones believes artificial intelligence will bring an economic change on the scale of the indus… [+6784 chars]
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Why can't Europe replicate the dazzling achievements of Silicon Valley? "We're not just a bunch of incompetent Europeans who are only good for going to the beach," says Leo Apotheker. Mr Apotheker … [+5462 chars]
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The first season of Silo has come to an end, and it was a very welcome surprise for sci-fi fans. Apple TV+ lined up Justified veteran Graham Yost to adapt Hugh Howey’s Wool novels, and that bet has c… [+5360 chars]
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Long before they could vote, the women known as the Harvard Computers shaped our understanding of the universe with their prolific and precise astronomical calculations. Among them was Henrietta Swan… [+2991 chars]
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Should the ketchup bottle go in the fridge or not? As Americans prepare for Fourth of July gatherings, many will stock up on barbecue essentials. But after the picnic is over and the ketchup bottle … [+4524 chars]
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Astronomers have watched the distant universe running in slow motion, marking the first time that the weird effect predicted by Einstein more than a century ago has been observed in the early cosmos.… [+2956 chars]
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3 with There is a reason countless songs about loneliness exist. Many are relatable, since feeling alone is often part of being human. But a particular song or experience that resonates with one lo… [+4848 chars]
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Last September, while working at his desk in Philadelphia, Samuel R. Delany experienced a mysterious episode that he calls the big drop. His vision faded for about three minutes, and he felt his body… [+8390 chars]
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When Chao Tayiana was growing up in Ngong town, west of Nairobi,she heard many stories about the Tsavo man-eaters, a pair of lions that terrorised and killed African and Indian railway workers during… [+12455 chars]
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Read MoreSupreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends President Joe Bidens State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, February 7, 2023.Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc v… [+4266 chars]
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Monday U.S. Senator Marco Rubio said government workers with high security clearances had made UFO-related claims, leading to a bill's provision to halt any reverse-engineering of alien crafts. News … [+3305 chars]
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Sally Weale provides an excellent summary of reasons for the alarming decline in school attendance (From Covid to poverty: why pupil absence in England is rising, 28 June). However, there is also an … [+2248 chars]
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Even though it's often employed innocently, there's an inherent element of tragedy in the phrase "ahead of their time" when it's associated with unsung or overlooked geniuses in a field. If one is "a… [+7291 chars]
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When Peter Benchley set out to write his novel of a beachfront town under attack from a killer shark, there was only one living species that really fit the bill. Theres something about a great white … [+4139 chars]
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In the quest to unravel the secrets of the universe, scientists have always been driven by a relentless curiosity. One of the greatest enigmas that has puzzled astrophysicists for decades is the natu… [+3320 chars]
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I love my mum, said last Saturdays headliner on Glastonburys West Holts stage. But then, as the London-born hip-hop artist Loyle Carner prepared for his next song, he got on to the really crucial par… [+7066 chars]
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In the early 20th century, Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla dreamed of pulling limitless free electricity from the air around us. Ever ambitious, Tesla was thinking on a vast scale, effectively looking … [+7422 chars]
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That the launch of a purportedly rejuvenating moisturiser is now considered national news is, you have to admit, a kind of progress. Well within living memory, face cream manufacturers would have fo… [+6256 chars]
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Midway through the 2019 Womens World Cup in France, several members of the United States team came together for a selfie taken by star striker Alex Morgan. Gathered on the pitch during a familiarisat… [+12623 chars]
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On late Saturday morning, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the European Space Agencys Euclid spacecraft successfully lifted off Cape Canaveral , Florida. The near-infrared telescope, named after th… [+1588 chars]
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully launched its Euclid space telescope to study the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida usin… [+2451 chars]
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A group of young women from the Awa people in Brazil hold their bows and arrows as they return from a hunt. A new reexamination of ethnographic studies finds female hunters are common in hunter-gathe… [+11702 chars]
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We didnt realise we were killing each other George Hodson: I spent the mid-70s chasing men, being chased George Hodson, 73I went to university in London in 1967, the year the decriminalisation bill… [+19407 chars]
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A protester sits in front of riot police during at Place de la Concorde in Paris on Friday, over the shooting of a teenage driver by French police in a Paris suburb on Tuesday. Emmanuel Dunand /AFP … [+7843 chars]
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Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first paying customers to the edge of space on Thursday. The company’s debut commercial flight took off from Spaceport America in New Mexico on Thursday mor… [+2463 chars]
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One year ago on Friday, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, son and namesake of the former dictator, became the president of the Philippines, returning one of the countrys most polarising families to office. He ha… [+8156 chars]
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Amid sweltering temperatures in Saudi Arabia, concerns are mounting about the welfare of pilgrims flocking to Mecca this week to perform the annual Hajj, one of the five pillars of Islam. More than… [+5597 chars]
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BT has disclosed that it missed almost 11,500 emergency 999 calls after technical faults shut down the platform last weekend. The company, which manages the emergency services calls system, said it … [+7426 chars]
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A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 5. Alex Wong/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court found that Harvard and the University of North Carolina's admissions policy violated t… [+3606 chars]
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On May 9, 2023, two days after a white supremacist murdered eight people at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, Elon Musk condemned “the media” for disproportionately focusing on violence committed again… [+7055 chars]
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Dustan Mueller had come to expect the unexpected. The US Forest Service deputy fire chief had been deployed thousands of miles from home to battle an out-of-control blaze in the wooded bogs and swamp… [+9892 chars]
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Popular Reddit client Apollo will allow users to decline refunds for subscriptions they have recently bought, days before the app is due to permanently shut down. The move comes amid a public dispute… [+3415 chars]
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Virgin Galactic is just hours away from launching its first-ever commercial flight to the edge of space. Thursday’s mission comes after years of testing that included a string of setbacks, the most … [+2393 chars]
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The Perseverance rover snapped this image of the surface of Mars on June 23. While roaming the Martian terrain, NASAs Perseverance rover spotted an odd-shaped rock that may have traveled its way fro… [+2227 chars]
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Chris Gloninger, pictured in June 2022. Next month he makes a career pivot from TV meteorologist to climate consultant. Chris Gloninger This story contains offensive language. TV meteorologist Chr… [+8131 chars]
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The record heatwave roiling parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mexico was made at least five times more likely due to human-caused climate change, scientists have found, marking the latest in a series of … [+10003 chars]
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A Chinese millionaire says he has failed the country's tough university entrance exams for the 27th time. On Friday, the 56-year-old Liang Shi found out he had scored only 424 out of 750 points. Th… [+2828 chars]
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Bill Maher took a deep dive into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s stance on vaccines in a sit-down interview for the Club Random with Bill Maher podcast. Kennedys anti-vaccine stance has become a talking poin… [+1589 chars]
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Robots have become an integral part of space exploration, performing tasks that are too dangerous or impractical for humans. To enhance the capabilities of these robots, scientists are now developing… [+3696 chars]
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One of the most influential scientists in technology has passed away. The University of Texas at Austin has confirmed that Dr. John Goodenough, widely credited as the creator of the lithium-ion batte… [+2545 chars]
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Franks superiors remained noncommittal about his China dream. In 1932, Frank returned to the United States, where he planned to be ordained as a priest. He told his Benedictine superior that he had r… [+10272 chars]
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The rain has just stopped falling when Nigel George walks down to the beach in Sandown Bay on the Isle of Wight. He crosses the coastal road and descends a concrete stairway, a sheen of sand covering… [+14825 chars]
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Four volunteers have just entered a simulated Mars habitat where they’ll live for the next year. The exercise is part of preparations for NASA’s first crewed mission to the red planet, which could t… [+3513 chars]
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One of the first targets observed by the James Webb Space Telescope when it began science operations last year was Stephan’s Quintet, a group of five galaxies locked close together in a complex struc… [+2772 chars]
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The decade of Venus is almost upon us. With three upcoming Venus missions planned from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), we’re on the cusp of learning more about our neighboring planet than e… [+10735 chars]
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Phil Schiller wont automate or fix app review processes as long as hes in charge of the App Store, says his former colleague Phillip Shoemaker. Shoemaker was hired in 2009 to draw up the app review … [+5576 chars]
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Hay fascinaciones inmunes al tiempo. Aunque hace ya más de un siglo que Howard Carter descubrió la tumba de Tutankamón en el Valle de los Reyes las historias sobre el faraón adolescente, su sepulcro … [+6825 chars]
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In the end, the Wagner mutiny lasted less than 24 hours. But the toxic cocktail of jealousy, rivalry and ambition that gave rise to it have been months, if not years, in the making. The main charac… [+11858 chars]
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The Goldfinch began its strange life almost 370 years ago; a delicate, eye-catching study in oils of a small captive bird. It is one of the few surviving works of Carel Fabritius, a Dutch artist of t… [+10251 chars]
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Senior executives from four of the major supermarkets will be questioned by MPs this week on the rising cost of groceries, as they face mounting pressure to offer a wider range of essential products … [+3231 chars]
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Outside a scruffy cabin marked Souvenirs at Russias Bellingshausen Antarctic research station, tourists and scientists clank up the metal stairs, keen to escape the blizzard. Out pokes the bearded f… [+7606 chars]
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Emily Smith, a final year geography student at Durham University, never imagined her already heavily disrupted university experience could end like this. She wont be graduating this summer because ha… [+13435 chars]
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An Olympic-styled competition for drug-taking athletes is being launched by an Australian entrepreneur. Melbourne-born, London-based businessman, Aron DSouza is the president of Enhanced Games, a co… [+9555 chars]
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Martu desert country, north-east of Wiluna in Western Australia, is green right now. We had a big rain in this area, says Yvonne Ashwin, Martu woman and coordinator of the Martu rangers, who care for… [+18927 chars]
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YouTube has plans to go beyond translated subtitles by allowing creators to dub videos into other spoken languages. At VidCon, the company announced yesterday that it's testing an AI-powered dubbing … [+1792 chars]
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Read MoreAbaca Press/Reuters <ul> <li>OceanGate Expeditions said that it uses Elon Musk's Starlink for its internet. </li> <li>It is unknown if Starlink played any role in the Titan's disappearance or loss o… [+3003 chars]
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A significant proportion of people paid to train AI models may be themselves outsourcing that work to AI, a new study has found. It takes an incredible amount of data to train AI systems to perform s… [+2183 chars]
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Georgianna McKenny, 17, is the high school grand-prize winner in NPR's fifth-annual Student Podcast Challenge. Imani Khayyam for NPR Georgianna McKenny's award-winning podcast begins, fittingly, wi… [+6851 chars]
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Big tech is trying to use its vast coffers to neuter the powers of the UKs new tech regulator, Rishi Sunak has been warned, as a fight over the courts becomes the latest battleground for overseeing S… [+8152 chars]
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Among my favourite mysteries of the natural world is Bathysphaera intacta, a 6ft fish said to resemble a large barracuda. The new species was supposedly spotted by the explorer and naturalist William… [+9635 chars]
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Headteachers across England have warned of critical shortages of English teachers. Secondary heads have found it difficult hiring maths, science, computer science and design technology teachers but E… [+4641 chars]
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A debris field has been found in the area where authorities are searching for the missingTitanic submersible four days after the vessel disappeared,the U.S. Coast Guard announced Thursday. In a race … [+988 chars]
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A man on Missouri's death row is on an emotional roller coaster amid efforts to spare his life with just one day before his scheduled execution, his attorney said Monday. Michael Tisius, 42, is set … [+3760 chars]
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The Navy has relieved the commanding officer of the Norfolk-based destroyer USS Stout, the service said Monday. Cmdr. Jeffrey Applebaugh, the skipper of the Stout, was removed from his position on F… [+2989 chars]
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Hoy, 5 de junio, es el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente. Un buen momento para recordar la importancia de buscar medidas contra el cambio climático y la contaminación. Pero medidas que funcionen de verd… [+6513 chars]
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I was stuck on hold this morning, and while waiting, ChatGPT called out to me! First, I asked the machine which was the most important Newton: Juice, Huey, or Issac? The silly machine claimed NOT to … [+2187 chars]
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Rich industrialised countries responsible for excessive levels of greenhouse gas emissions could be liable to pay $170tn in climate reparations by 2050 to ensure targets to curtail climate breakdown … [+9543 chars]
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A team of paleoanthropologists has discovered evidence that the extinct human relative Homo naledinot only intentionally buried their dead, but also used symbols, perhaps for mortuary reasons. The e… [+4231 chars]
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The world is at a tipping point in the climate crisis that requires all countries to put aside their national interests to fight for the common good, the UNs top climate official has warned. Simon S… [+10092 chars]
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Sailors testing the waters during the Ocean Race, which travels through some of the worlds most remote ocean environments, have found microplastics in every sample. Up to 1,884 microplastic particle… [+7845 chars]
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Now that Succession has finally lived up to its writers most-loved phrase and decided to fuck off at the end of its fourth season, it leaves a big question for the TV world. Its one befitting a show … [+12229 chars]
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Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2023 kicks off on Monday, and the company is expected to announce the next version of its iPhone software, iOS 17, at the event. WWDC comes about a month after… [+5883 chars]
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The real payoff from the Apollo missions had nothing to do with the moon. The prize was travelling far enough out into space to look back properly at planet Earth. Those two unforgettable images Eart… [+10306 chars]
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The creators of artificial intelligence need to abandon their tech utopian mindset, according to the terror watchdog, amid fears that the new technology could be used to groom vulnerable individuals.… [+9800 chars]
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Many people treat bronzers like a faux tan product. Which is why the skin of those who use them may have a strange tinge that resembles the love child of an extreme case of jaundice and burnt toast. … [+2708 chars]
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CS50, an introductory course in computer science attended by hundreds of students on-campus and over 40,000 online, plans to use artificial intelligence to grade assignments, teach coding and persona… [+1223 chars]
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When Queensland police fined people for taking their clothes off at a well-known nude beach last month, they poked the bear that is the naturist community, Scott Rider says. Thats b.e.a.r., the Quee… [+7125 chars]
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BPs sponsorship of the British Museum has ended after 27 years, new disclosures make clear, bringing to a close one of the highest-profile and most controversial of such deals in recent years, and ma… [+3911 chars]
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For several years, the world has been in the grip of La Niña, a weather system in the Pacific that tends to bring cooler temperatures around the world. Despite that, there has continued to be strong… [+5726 chars]
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Joseph Hoyt and his team first showed up to the abandoned mineshaft in Wisconsin during the late summer of 2017, personal protective equipment in hand. Long before Covid-19, the supplies were to prot… [+7793 chars]
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When the historian Nicolas Bell-Romero started a job researching Cambridge Universitys past links to transatlantic slavery three years ago, he did not expect to be pilloried in the national press by … [+41707 chars]
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Pesticide companies failed to disclose a series of studies assessing brain toxicity to European regulators, according to new research, despite the same studies having been submitted to US regulators.… [+16090 chars]
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After the May G7 summit in Hiroshima, the US president, Joe Biden, claimed that he expected a thaw in relations with China. Yet, despite some recent official bilateral meetings with the US secretary … [+10993 chars]
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Back in the 1950s, a term was coined to describe the consensus that had allegedly emerged over the way to run the economy in the postwar world. An amalgam of the names of two chancellors of the exche… [+5414 chars]
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A Nasa panel investigating unidentified flying objects has collected around 800 mysterious reports - but only a small fraction are truly unexplained, researchers say. The agency set up the panel las… [+3317 chars]
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Human activity has pushed the world into the danger zone in seven out of eight newly demarcated indicators of planetary safety and justice, according to a groundbreaking analysis of the Earths wellbe… [+11493 chars]
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Five years since the Kepler Space Telescope was retired, a team of astronomers believe theyve found exoplanets captured by some of the veteran observatorys last light. Kepler launched to space in 20… [+3187 chars]
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Almost 60% of people would like to see the UK government regulate the use of generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT in the workplace to help safeguard jobs, according to a survey. As leading fig… [+8121 chars]
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Parents and children say they love the London Welsh school, the only bilingual Welsh language nursery and primary school in England. The only problem, according to the schools chair of governors, is … [+11843 chars]
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As humans, we are part of the natural world, a stitch in the rich tapestry that is global biodiversity. Yet so often, and at an increasing rate that couples with biodiversity loss, we see ourselves a… [+6231 chars]
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Nancy Caywood worries about water constantly. Water or the uncertainty of it has kept the 69-year-old Arizona farmer awake at night since supplies began dwindling about two decades ago due to chronic… [+15279 chars]
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Millions of North Carolina residents are likely to be placed in congressional districts where the outcome of elections is all but predetermined, following the state supreme courts April ruling to all… [+10983 chars]
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The adventurers planning to live for up to 60 days on the islet of Rockall in the north Atlantic have arrived on the isolated rock and begun broadcasting to radio hams around the world. The three ad… [+3472 chars]
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The Crew Dragon spacecraft departed the space station Tuesday morning and the crew spent nearly 12 hours in orbit as the capsule maneuvered back toward Earth. After a fiery reentry, the Crew Dragon a… [+2086 chars]
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The UK government looks set to land a deal with Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover, in which the company will construct an electric-vehicle battery plant in Somerset in exchange for about £500m in subsidie… [+5509 chars]
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For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of Earths remarkable regenerative capacity that sustains climate stability and rich biological diversity. Now human activity has sev… [+5170 chars]
Read MoreJeffrey Epstein visited Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2004.Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images <ul> <li>Jeffrey Epstein was invited to editorial meetings with Scientific American's edit… [+4102 chars]
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The scale of plastic pollution is growing, relentlessly. The world is producing twice as much plastic waste as two decades ago, reaching 353 million tonnes in 2019, according to OECD figures. The vas… [+2277 chars]
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Ryan McNeill, from over at Reuters, has been thinking about bats for three years. Specifically, hes been thinking about bats and pandemics. Back in 2020, like the everyone else, McNeill was following… [+14776 chars]
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The Japanese-born British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most critically acclaimed authors writing in English today: the now 68-year-old was twice selected in the Granta Best of Young British … [+11625 chars]
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Researchers are one step closer to understanding why some babies are at greater risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS the leading cause of death for infants one month to one year old. Most o… [+5461 chars]
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South Korea’s KARI ( Korea Aerospace Research Institute ) successfully put a commercial satellite into orbit Thursday, achieving another milestone in their domestic space program. The Nuri rocket (ak… [+1198 chars]
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A Queensland man who survived a crocodile attack by prising the reptiles jaws off his head says he was simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Marcus McGowan, 51, was snorkelling near the Char… [+2765 chars]
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One of Australias two active volcanoes on an island near Antarctica known as Big Ben has been spotted by satellite spewing lava. The lava flow on the uninhabited Heard Island, about 4,100 kilometres… [+8372 chars]
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Read MoreA Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber over the Kremlin in Moscow in May 2015.ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images <ul> <li>Since the 1950s, Ireland has allowed British jets to intercept Russian aircraf… [+6378 chars]
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Desde hace ya unos años China ha ido recortando las distancias que la separan de los Estados Unidos en investigación científica y tecnológica. Ahora la superpotencia asiática ha adelantado a la ameri… [+4490 chars]
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Donald Trump on Sunday was over the moon about the reelection of strongman Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Congratulations to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his big and well-deserved vict… [+1660 chars]
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[Source] A 12-year-old boy from California has made national and global headlines after graduating from college this month. Clovis Hung, who started college at 9, is now the youngest person in Ful… [+3191 chars]
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Natural Language Processing (NLP), which encompasses areas such as linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence, has been developed to understand better and process human language. In s… [+15409 chars]
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People who have a diet rich in flavanols, which are found in tea, apples and berries, may be less likely to develop age-related memory loss, research suggests. A three-year study of 3,562 people age… [+3685 chars]
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When Anahita Laverack and Ciaran Dowds tested their robot boat for the first time off the coast of Wales, it was not smooth sailing. The 23-year-olds, both engineering graduates from Imperial College… [+5922 chars]
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Chances are you dont think too hard about the water in your life. Its easy to take it for granted, and when it comes to water quality, most people will run out and get a water filter of some kind and… [+5104 chars]
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In one of the toughest growing regions in the US, commercial farmers like Frank Machac are experimenting with a style of ancient agriculture more known for soil health than profit. They are perhaps … [+12333 chars]
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This British-made puzzle of a movie revolves around Liam (Neil Bishop), a young man who wakes up with amnesia in an eerily quiet hospital ward with stitches in his face and a big bandage around his h… [+1856 chars]
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Rumman Chowdhury often has trouble sleeping, but, to her, this is not a problem that requires solving. She has what she calls 2am brain, a different sort of brain from her day-to-day brain, and the o… [+14741 chars]
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A stunning new set of images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope shows the surface of the sun in incredible detail — including frankly disturbing images of sunspots seen up close. The images ha… [+2681 chars]
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Clovis Hung, a mere 12 years old, has set a new record at Fullerton College in California, becoming the youngest person to graduate and he didn't stop at just one degree. Hung has been awardedfive as… [+1567 chars]
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A rare white bison calf has been born at a Wyoming state park, officials reported. A 2-year-old white bison gave birth to the calf at Bear River State Park near Evanston, park officials said May 16 … [+1319 chars]
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In conservative, purple-ish Arizona, Kevin Payne, a Republican House member from Peoria, a suburb northeast of Phoenix, proposed in House Bill 2486 that the 48th State be the first to approve natural… [+2834 chars]
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In the Alps and Apennines of southern Europe, nearly all the longhorn beetles are moving uphill, and way up at the peaks, the isolation of a brown butterfly with orange-tipped wings is pushing it tow… [+12065 chars]
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Since beginning science operations last summer, the James Webb Space Telescope has been providing a plethora of beautiful images of space. Now, NASA has shared a new view of some of those images, by … [+2784 chars]
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We all face disruptions to our peace of mind work stressors, parenting pressures, and even smaller hurdles like running out of shampoo. Stress management apps can help ease anxieties that could other… [+13539 chars]
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Podría parecer que poner a prueba las teorías de Einstein es uno de los pasatiempos favoritos de la comunidad científica. Hasta ahora su teoría de la relatividad general ha salido bien parada de toda… [+3182 chars]
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Si se pueden solucionar varios problemas de un plumazo, ¿por qué afrontarlos de uno en uno? En la Universidad de Kitakyushu, situada en Kyushu, Japón, trabaja un grupo de investigadores que ha decidi… [+5697 chars]
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Iain M. Banks wrote magnificent science fiction novels featuring The Culture, a post-scarcity transstellar AI-suffused quasi-utopia on whose fringes the action happens. Now comes a big beautiful book… [+651 chars]
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The cruelty of teenage girls can often feel like life-or-death—but in Yellowjackets, Showtime’s hit series about a New Jersey girl’s soccer team that gets stranded in the wilderness, it really is. St… [+6691 chars]
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Elon Musks brain implant company Neuralink says it's gotten permission from U.S. regulators to begin testing its device in people. The company made the announcement on Twitter Thursday evening but h… [+2473 chars]
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Never work with animals, children or egotistical space billionaires. Theres a lesson in there that Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida learned the hard way when he used Elon Musks Twitter Spaces social … [+8916 chars]
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The AI helped narrow down thousands of potential chemicals to a handful that could be tested in the laboratory. The result was a potent, experimental antibiotic called abaucin, which will need furthe… [+825 chars]
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Rishi Sunak is scrambling to update the governments approach to regulating artificial intelligence, amid warnings that the industry poses an existential risk to humanity unless countries radically ch… [+9480 chars]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the graduating class of Johns Hopkins University via livestream from Ukraine on Thursday in Baltimore. Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University via AP Uk… [+2910 chars]
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China has overtaken the US to become the biggest contributor to nature-science journals, in a sign of the countrys growing influence in the world of academic research. The Nature Index, which tracks… [+2629 chars]
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Critics have hailed Wes Anderson's star-studded new film Asteroid City as "stylish" but lacking substance. The sci-fi homage sees a junior stargazer convention disrupted by world-changing events. A… [+6842 chars]
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Recycling plastic can make it more toxic and should not be considered a solution to the pollution crisis, Greenpeace has warned before the latest round of negotiations for an international plastics t… [+8579 chars]
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Three popular former mayors are vying against each other to replace Tsai ing-wen as president and lead Taiwan through one of the most dangerous periods in its history. The presidential election, to … [+7210 chars]
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A chemical weapons expert has been disinvited from giving a keynote speech at a UK-run expert conference after civil servants discovered social media posts he wrote criticising Conservative ministers… [+9062 chars]
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The head of the worlds leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month. It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based non-profit, approved tens of millions … [+3337 chars]
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Irelands oldest woman has marked her 109th birthday by sharing two tips on how to enjoy a long life: dont waste time, and live it to the full. Máirín Hughes follows her own advice by bird-watching, … [+1945 chars]
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Man has killed off much of the Earth’s existing wildlife, and some scientists argue that human activity has set off the world’s sixth mass extinction event. New research now shows global animal popul… [+4285 chars]
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At New College of Florida, students independently organized an alternative graduation ceremony, called "Commencement On Our Terms," to take a stand against a threat to their academic freedom by Gover… [+1780 chars]
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SpaceX on Sunday evening launched a commercial mission to the International Space Station carrying four people, including former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson. This "Axiom-2" mission was commanded by … [+2063 chars]
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Saturn, the giant planet known for its rings, is now being celebrated for having the highest number of moons in the solar system 145 total, after gaining 62 additional moons in May, according to exte… [+4486 chars]
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(GENEVA) — The economic damage of weather- and climate-related disasters continues to rise, even as improvements in early warning have helped reduce the human toll, the U.N. weather agency said Monda… [+3741 chars]
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During the worst days of the pandemic, a chip shortage may have stopped you from buying a Ford F-150 or Sony PlayStation. Now some of the $53 billion in federal funds to try to ease the problem could… [+2162 chars]
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It feels like a gold rush, says Timnit Gebru. In fact, it is a gold rush. And a lot of the people who are making money are not the people actually in the midst of it. But its humans who decide whethe… [+21146 chars]
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If you want to look at bees, go to a city rather than the countryside, says Sarah Hudson, and on a bright spring day in central London, its not hard to see what she means. Hudson, a retired accounta… [+4632 chars]
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SpaceX and Axiom Space successfully launched NASA’s second all-private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday. Four crewmembers — two Americans and two Saudi Arabians — lifted of… [+1932 chars]
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Signs of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok. But nowhere is it more apparent than on the microscopi… [+7707 chars]
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When Bill Gates took the stage at Stanford back in 1996, he was ready with his first joke after a long round of appreciative applause. "Maybe I dropped out of the wrong college."But Bill Gates still … [+3241 chars]
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Google Colab hosts free cloud-based "executable documents" that, among other things, let you write and run code in your browser (in dozens of languages, including Python).Over 7 million people, inclu… [+1988 chars]
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There's shortages of young semiconductor engineers around the world, reports IEEE Spectrum — partially explained by this quote from Intel's director of university research collaboration. "We hear fro… [+2846 chars]
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Lucky Chicagoland pop culture fans and tchotchke collectors can go see the latest show at the Museum of Science and Industry: Mold-A-Rama: Molded for the Future!The story of the beloved retro machine… [+530 chars]
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CNN's chief medical correspondent spoke to psychology professor Jean Twenge from San Diego State University who in 2018 published a book which, even before lockdowns, warned that teenagers were missi… [+2826 chars]
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Four private citizens are about to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a spacecraft ride to the International Space Station (ISS). The Ax-2 mission, currently scheduled for Sunday… [+2690 chars]
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The Jezero crater on Mars, where NASA’s Perseverance is currently exploring, is vast at nearly 30 miles across and was likely created by a huge asteroid impact. But there wasn’t just one asteroid imp… [+2684 chars]
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Fragments of bacteria leaking into the body from the gut are damaging fat cells and driving weight gain, research suggests. Scientists at Nottingham Trent University have found that these microbe fr… [+7966 chars]
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A science teacher has found an unusual way of exorcising the loneliness and isolation of the repeated lockdowns during the Covid crisis. He plans to spend two months living alone on Rockall, a barren… [+4643 chars]
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Three boats have been attacked and sunk by orcas off the Iberian coast, and it appears that the behavior is is being learned and copied by the population. Link to Live Science article here. "Three o… [+1695 chars]
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Cuando los primeros Homo sapiens comenzaron a merodear la Tierra estaban lejos de ser los únicos humanos en el planeta. Ahora, en pleno auge de la paleogenética, un equipo de investigadores ha lograd… [+4706 chars]
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The James Webb Space Telescope has enabled scientists to find evidence of millions of supermassive stars that existed as the universe began. Link to the Live Science article here. "Born just 440 mil… [+912 chars]
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Menopause treatments will be revolutionised by a drug that acts directly on the brain to prevent hot flushes, leading doctors have predicted. Speaking after the US approved the first non-hormonal me… [+5008 chars]
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Someone has uploaded the science fiction horror movie, I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958), to the Internet Archive. I have never seen it before. From the description, it seems similar to Inv… [+2871 chars]
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Hardly anyone uses normal nail polish anymore, it seems. Now, gel and acrylic manicures are the thing—and you don’t even have to go to a salon to get them. Gel and acrylic manis appeal to many beca… [+6461 chars]
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If you put on a pair of soft contact lenses this morning you took a greater risk than you might realize. Soft lenses seem very eye-friendly; they’re smooth, comfortable, allow oxygen to reach the eye… [+14499 chars]
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The natural burst of El Nino warming that changes weather worldwide is far costlier with longer-lasting expenses than experts had thought, averaging trillions of dollars in damage, a new study found.… [+5692 chars]
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For weeks after his bizarre conversation with Bing’s new chatbot went viral, New York Times columnist Kevin Roose wasn’t sure what had happened. “The explanations you get for how these language model… [+9572 chars]
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SAN FRANCISCO — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes will remain free through the Memorial Day weekend before surrendering to authorities on May 30 to begin her more than 11-year prison sentence f… [+3121 chars]
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The Biden administration on Wednesday announced $251 million for carbon capture and storage projects in seven states, aiming to reduce planet-warming pollution from power plants and other industrial … [+4633 chars]
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Anyone who has spent a summer evening swatting away mosquitoes, or a summer day scratching mosquito bites, can agree: Mosquitoes stink. But the smells produced by humans are an important part of what… [+6291 chars]
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When it comes to the issue of climate change, naysayers often contend that we have an incomplete understanding of the Earth’s systems. While humanity is yet to uncover all the secrets of the world, t… [+4973 chars]
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Modern day computer artist, [Amy Goodchild] surveys a history of Early Computer Art from the 1950s and 1960s. With so much attention presently focused on AI-generated artwork, we should remember that… [+2182 chars]
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In the constant pursuit of innovation, it’s easy to overlook the wisdom of the past. The scientific method and modern research techniques have brought us much innovation, which can often lead us to d… [+6057 chars]
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While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel… [+1687 chars]
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For the past few months, every night at 8 p.m., local radio stations in Syria have played a special lullaby meant to replace the sounds of war with soothing music to calm children and help them fall … [+2933 chars]
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While Europes climate tech companies raised a record $13.2bn in 2022, investment is nowhere near the levels required to combat climate change, according to a new report by World Fund. Specifically, … [+3721 chars]
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Más de la mitad de los principales lagos y embalses del mundo se están secando. Un nuevo estudio, basado en imágenes satelitales, comprobó que 53% de estas superficies de agua vienen disminuyendo sig… [+3959 chars]
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In 1871, the models and casts of dinosaurs set for the Paleozoic Museum that was to be opened in Central Park, New York City, were smashed with sledgehammers and buried in the park. The museum would … [+3262 chars]
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The online food ordering trend is becoming more advanced in today’s digital ecosystem. Essentially, food delivery apps have become a consistent part of our everyday lifestyle. As a result, businesses… [+10187 chars]
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This may be the world's largest ever gathering of Satanists - and it's about to begin at a Marriott hotel in downtown Boston.In a candle-lit room set aside for Satanic ceremonies, a neon sign welcome… [+12931 chars]
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Renewable energy scored a big win this week in Massachusetts. A federal judge in the states district court rejected a lawsuit brought by an alleged group of Nantucket residents, which sought to stop … [+4596 chars]
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While it may be obvious to the people it affects most, research now confirms that living next to an airport can seriously curtail how much sleep you get. Researchers at the Boston University School… [+4214 chars]
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Its been more than 15 years since my show Hughs Chicken Run exposed the treatment of the UKs most farmed animal. The month after it aired, sales of factory-farmed chickens plummeted and free-range bi… [+5334 chars]
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The end of the world is nigh, again. And as usual, its being greeted largely with a shrug. Perhaps you felt a prick of unease as you scrolled the headlines, or half listened over breakfast to some ra… [+6701 chars]
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In my spring lecture course of 120 students, my teaching assistants caught four examples of students using artificial-intelligence-driven language programs like ChatGPT to complete short essays. In e… [+7569 chars]
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As the research group reports in Science, this condition is much like that of the cat in the famous thought experiment of physicist Erwin Schrodinger. In Schrodinger's quantum-mechanical scenario, a … [+2077 chars]
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More than half of the worlds large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s chiefly because of the climate crisis and human consumption intensifying concerns about water supply for agri… [+2023 chars]
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Ahead of their 10-day mission to the Moon, the Artemis 2 crew members will be undergoing 18 months of training to learn how to operate the spacecraft and what to do in case of an emergency. The Arte… [+2647 chars]
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Trouble is brewing in the sea. The Pacific Ocean has transitioned away from La Niña conditions, when a long band of cold water forms off the coast of South America, and is barreling toward its counte… [+3561 chars]
Read MoreSamuel Altman, CEO of OpenAI, testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law May 16, 2023 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee/Getty Images <ul> <li>Even the man who… [+4464 chars]
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The Chumash people viewed the Pacific Ocean as their first home. Their territory once spanned 7,000 sq miles, from the rolling hills of Paso Robles to the white sand beaches of Malibu. Now, the regio… [+7003 chars]
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Global heating has likely intensified a climate pattern in the Pacific since the 1960s that has driven extreme droughts, floods and heatwaves around the globe, according to a new study. The scientis… [+9458 chars]
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Rishi Sunak will seek to build a stronger defence with Japan amid fears of Chinas rising militarisation as he travels to Tokyo and Hiroshima for the G7 summit. The prime minister will be accompanied… [+9396 chars]
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The Norwegian government is facing growing pressure to scale back its huge global fossil fuel expansion plans including the development of a controversial new oilfield in the North Sea. Climate acti… [+11663 chars]
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A police force has formally apologised to a man who three decades ago was wrongly accused of killing a seven-year-old girl, after the real murderer was finally convicted. George Heron was 24 when he… [+2797 chars]
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Scientists have uncovered how a common childhood virus could trigger multiple sclerosis (MS), in findings that could pave the way for new treatments for the devastating condition. The research sugge… [+3291 chars]
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Environmental DNA sampling is nothing new. Rather than having to spot or catch an animal, instead the DNA from the traces they leave can be sampled, giving clues about their genetic diversity, their … [+1859 chars]
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A school of piranhas swarmed tourists wading in a stream in Tarumã-Açu, Brazil, on May 1, injuring at least eight people with bloody bites on their legs and feet. Link to the the article in Live Scie… [+1353 chars]
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Long COVID has disrupted the daily lives of millions of people and even disabled some. A medical society representing physicians and others who work with people with disabilities, the American Academ… [+5564 chars]
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made an appeal to members of Congress under oath: Regulate artificial intelligence. Altman, whose company is on the extreme forefront of generative A.I. technology with its Ch… [+8279 chars]
Read MoreUkrainian troops train to use commercial drones to spot and target enemy forces in Kharkiv Oblast in August.Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images <ul> <li>In the days after Russia's invasi… [+5407 chars]
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Even by the standards of Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, it was a stunning display of strength. There were a few of them here at the clubs training ground on Tuesday as the manager looked ahead to … [+10679 chars]
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Joseph Dituri lives in a 100-square-foot bunker, about the size of two king beds, that includes a small kitchen, living room and sleeping area. LordeLIFE Joseph Dituri, a 55-year-old professor at t… [+2154 chars]
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Europes JUICE mission is on an eight-year journey to the solar systems largest planet, traveling deep into the solar system to study Jupiter and its icy, potentially habitable moons. A ground-based t… [+1833 chars]
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The ability to track a product along the supply chain can help companies meet ambitious environmental goals. "> Despite the growing demand for sustainable food, many companies hesitate to set am… [+7776 chars]
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Tech startup Telly is making a a huge bet: The companys business model involves giving away a dual-screen, 55, 4K TV, plus a sound-bar and a teleconferencing camera, music software, games, and more, … [+3452 chars]
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BlueTwelve Studios cat-based adventure game Stray has received an ESRB rating for Xbox consoles, suggesting its time as a PlayStation console exclusive could be coming to an end. As spotted by VGC, … [+1436 chars]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a nearly $11 billion investment on Tuesday to help bring affordable clean energy to rural communities throughout the country. Rural electric cooperatives… [+4685 chars]
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KEY LARGO, Fla. (AP) An underwater researcher broke a record for the longest time living underwater at ambient pressure this weekend at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers. Dr. Joseph Dituris 74th… [+1940 chars]
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We’re sorry, the politically correct term these days is “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP), as it’s less likely to excite those with a predilection for tinfoil hats. But whether you call them f… [+2395 chars]
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[NASA] Astronauts will be testing the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) to transmit live, 4K ultra-high-definition video back to Earth from the Moon. The system will also support c… [+1378 chars]
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Is there something about dreaming that enhances our creativity? Or is it just sleep itself? Scientists say they're closer to an answer, thanks to an unusual study that used an electronic glove to gui… [+1286 chars]
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The biggest names in international movie-making will descend on the French Riviera this week for the annual Cannes Film Festival. Harrison Ford, Leonardo DiCaprio and Phoebe Waller-Bridge will be a… [+6746 chars]
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NASA is finally giving up on its tiny water-hunting cubesat, officially calling it quits on the Lunar Flashlight mission after failing to fix its propulsion issues. On Friday, the space agency annou… [+2699 chars]
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In March 2021, the 13th month of the Covid confinement, the peepers, in their vast multitudes, sang out again. Down in the swampy wetlands below our house in Hudson Valley, New York, millions of Pseu… [+33989 chars]
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The NHSs biggest cancer hospital has been downgraded in ratings issued by the care watchdog after staff raised concerns about bullying. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned the Christie hosp… [+8459 chars]
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The Ferrymanby Justin Cronin (Orion, £22)The new novel from the author of The Passage could hardly be more different in tone and setting from that acclaimed horror trilogy. The island of Prospera pro… [+3889 chars]
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The U.S. is moving to ease restrictions on blood donations from gay and bisexual men and other groups that traditionally face higher risks of HIV. Here, tubes direct blood from a donor into a bag in … [+3760 chars]
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Elon Musk is apparently in the mood to follow-up on promises this week. After months of silence on the topic, the worlds second richest man has announced hes selected a successor to take over the rol… [+2337 chars]
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20 with Apple TV+ has dropped a teaser for the second season of its epic sci-fi series, Foundation. It has been too long since we binged all 10 episodes of Apple TV's 2021 epic sci-fi series Found… [+4189 chars]
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When hammerhead sharks begin some of their deepest dives, they do the piscine equivalent of what a human would do: they hold their breath. Sharks dont breathe air, of course, but they can close thei… [+2800 chars]
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Elon Musk's long-promised launch of encrypted direct messages on Twitter has arrived. Like most attempts to add end-to-end encryption to a massive existing platformnever an easy propositionthere's go… [+3046 chars]
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Productivity hacks often have funky little names. You have your Pomodoro technique, the idea of eating the frog, and now, temptation bundling. Temptation bundling, per Ness Labs, involves combining a… [+2092 chars]
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Nothing short of a miracle is how Sir Alex Ferguson has described the most astonishing victory of his managerial career. It came against Real Madrid but not during his 26-year spell at Manchester Uni… [+15197 chars]
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AI could harm the health of millions and pose an existential threat to humanity, doctors and public health experts have said as they called for a halt to the development of artificial general intelli… [+4330 chars]
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Lizzo was right: Truth Hurts. Two of Donald Trumps Truths on his own Truth Social platform will cost the ex-president millions, even as he avoids full liability for the alleged rape of magazine write… [+2409 chars]
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Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistans two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed. Emissions of the potent… [+8356 chars]
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Private crewed space flights were so hot in 2021 and 2022, but the current year has been very quiet in this regard. Thats now about to change, as Axiom Space and Virgin Galactic prepare for their res… [+4723 chars]
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About 25 light years away from Earth lies Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night sky. The Fomalhaut system has captivated astronomers for decades, but its only now that were developing a … [+2526 chars]
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Backed by NASA, the handheld micro-infuser addresses more than beauty A therapeutics designer and a medical diagnostics professional have created a handheld device that delivers skincare ingredients … [+8293 chars]
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You'll soon see Hollywood's treatment of one of the most important (and dangerous) moments in scientific history. Universal has released a trailer for Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan's biopic of the p… [+1491 chars]
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A blood test to measure whether a driver who has caused an accident was impaired by lack of sleep could be available within two years, making it easier to legislate against drowsy drivers or their em… [+6664 chars]
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Matter delights in music, and became Bach, Ronald Johnson wrote in a stunning prose poem. How it did — how we became, in the poetic words of the physicist Richard Feynman, “atoms with consciousness m… [+6353 chars]
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When it comes to diversity and anti-racism, the coronation was a perfect metaphor for where Britain is today. The gospel choir, the Blackest moment of any coronation, crystallised this perfectly. Th… [+4970 chars]
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The earliest signs of summer herald my annual metamorphosis from woman to lifesize pincushion. Whether at home or abroad, when mosquitoes begin their hunt for blood I am reminded, via a blanket of re… [+10724 chars]
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Annabel Streets is searching for a conifer. It is a bright, early March day and we are looping around the gardens of Fulham Palace in southwest London. She spots what she is looking for: a large spre… [+10384 chars]
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More than 40 leading scientists have resigned en masse from the editorial board of a top science journal in protest at what they describe as the greed of publishing giant Elsevier. The entire academ… [+4604 chars]
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Researchers have uncovered a new genus of butterfly, with distinctive orange wings and dark eyespots. It is a striking appearance that has led the international team to label the genus Saurona, after… [+3172 chars]
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Ocean surface heat is at record-breaking levels. Temperatures began climbing in mid-March and skyrocketed over the course of several weeks, leaving scientists scrambling to figure out exactly why.Tem… [+994 chars]
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Rishi Sunak will be grateful that the coronation bank holiday weekend diverts attention away from the electoral bloodbath his party suffered on Thursday. More than 1,000 Conservative councillors lost… [+5573 chars]
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Invertebrates living in the cool meltwater rivers of the European Alps could lose most of their habitat and disappear, as the mountain ranges glaciers melt at an unprecedented rate due to climate cha… [+8634 chars]
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The EU has been warned that it risks handing control of artificial intelligence to US tech firms if it does not act to protect grassroots research in its forthcoming AI bill. In an open letter coord… [+4559 chars]
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Fast-rising fungal attacks on the world's most important crops threaten the planet's future food supply, scientists have said, warning that failing to tackle fungal pathogens could lead to a "global … [+2554 chars]
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Every morning, starting at 3am, Lakshan hacks up manta rays. A wholesale buyer who plies his trade at Sri Lankas largest fish market, in the city of Negombo, just north of Colombo, he jostles with fi… [+7241 chars]
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Microsoft opened its ChatGPT-powered search engine to the public Thursday, removing the waitlist and likewise granting free access to its AI-enabled Edge web browser. The move makes Microsoft the fir… [+6970 chars]
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A shoebox-sized satellite may soon meet its untimely death after failing to fire its thrusters. The cubesat may have been compromised as it excessively waitedfor launch on board NASAs Space Launch Sy… [+2668 chars]
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The prospect of future generations having access to effective drug treatments for Alzheimers disease and other forms of dementia cannot come soon enough (UK on verge of new dawn for dementia treatmen… [+2773 chars]
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Licences have been issued for more than 160,000 eggs to be taken from black-headed gull nests since 2019, government data shows, as conservationists call for the eggs to be taken off all menus. Each… [+4578 chars]
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Todays column is a tribute to Ivan Moscovich, a legend in the world of puzzles, who died last week aged 96. Ivan was a prolific inventor of toys and games, a pioneer of interactive science museums an… [+4143 chars]
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City have named three at the back with Stones in a midfield role. Theyll be expected to boss the ball which is good news for the striking Viking up top who is one goal away from a staggering half cen… [+14463 chars]
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Can we imagine a scenario in which the different anxieties aroused by George Romeros horror film Night of the Living Dead and Stanley Kubricks sci-fi dystopia 2001: A Space Odyssey merge? How might … [+13556 chars]
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Diane Abbott denies that Travellers, Irish and Jewish people ever, at any point in their lives and at any point in history, experience racism (Racism is black and white, Letters). She justifies this … [+6055 chars]
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Five scientists walk into a theatre and try standup for the first time. Does hilarity ensue? Yes, according to the producers of the Steam Room a program in which comedians teach a team of scientists… [+10153 chars]
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Biofire founder Kai Kloepfer says his goal in creating this 9mm smart gun is to "have an incremental positive impact on sort of the uniquely American challenge of gun deaths." Biofire In the 2012 f… [+6904 chars]
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A creature that humans came very close to obliterating now offers hope that we may be able to find ways to tackle one of the most pernicious environmental poisons, say scientists. Their research has… [+4070 chars]
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I like the Old Testament as much as the next Christian. Theres lots of fabulous stuff in there: the creation story is quite beautiful, Job is an extraordinary vignette of lifes inevitable hardships, … [+8891 chars]
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Overwatch 2 players are very particular about balance and fairness and their perception of both those things. So when I looked at these new patch notes and started skimming them, I was so concerned w… [+14703 chars]
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In the wake of a devastating hurricane or wildfire, its fair to point out the ways that climate change is making those disasters more frequent and more intense. But when it comes to tornadoespowerful… [+3786 chars]
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Algo parecía estar fallando en el modelo estándar de la física de partículas, uno de los puntales de nuestro conocimiento sobre las interacciones que rigen nuestro universo. Un fallo que abría la pue… [+4013 chars]
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Thrilled to learn that National Geographic is creating a new documentary about the renowned astronomer, and that it's a love story. Described as an "intimate and cinematic portrait" of the visionary … [+2170 chars]
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Scott Pilgrim vs the Worldis coming back! The acclaimed graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O'Malley was adapted to the screen by Edgar Wright in 2010, with an all-star cast featuring Michael Cera as t… [+1896 chars]
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On a sunny June evening last year, members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society filed slowly into the Friends Meeting House, just off St Peters Square. When the neat white building tu… [+28146 chars]
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April is a month for the memoir, it seems: Maggie Smith’s lyrical You Could Make This Place Beautiful illustrates the end of a marriage and the beginning of a new chapter. Nicole Chung’s A Living Rem… [+11296 chars]
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An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” This 6-month moratorium would be better than no… [+11764 chars]
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[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician and scientist by the standards of the 17th century. However, the telescopes he built were considered to be relatively poor in quality for the pe… [+1416 chars]
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Jem, 24, has started losing sleep over the climate emergency. Over the last two years, I have felt growing anxiety at the state of the environment. It keeps me up at night, Jem, who works in nature c… [+5420 chars]
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Dating someone from another country (in my case New Zealand), means occasionally stumbling upon pop cultural differences that didnt quite make the jump across. A few days ago, after it came up in con… [+6272 chars]
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The more workshops you organize, the better you realize how similar they actually are, regardless of the methodology or tool used. I would like to share a comprehensive checklist that will help you p… [+26955 chars]
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Crossing fingers and hoping for the best is hardly a sensible way to tackle the climate emergency, but it is a strategy that the government seems determined to follow. Today, it launched its revised … [+4272 chars]
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On May 11, 2020 a deadly threat flew from Los Angeles to New York City in under nine minutes. It was a 20-tonne Chinese Long March 5B rocket body passing around 60 miles overhead. Just 15 minutes la… [+7142 chars]
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In June and July 2021, an extreme heat wave swept across the historically temperate Pacific Northwest, killing hundreds of people and cooking over a billion sea creatures. Now, scientists have used i… [+2993 chars]
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That the name of the eccentric biotech-genius-entrepreneur protagonist of Unstable is Ellis Dragon tells you everything you need to know about this Netflix comedy series. It knows it is supposed to b… [+4332 chars]
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The greatest notoriety and critical and sales success enjoyed by the writer DM Thomas, who has died aged 88, came with his controversial novel The White Hotel (1981), inspired by his readings of Sigm… [+8296 chars]
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Enlarge/ Graduate student W. Walker Smith converted the visible light given off by the elements into audio, creating unique, complex sounds for each one. His personal favorites are helium and zinc. … [+5324 chars]
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In a white paper to be put forward to Parliament, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) will outline five principles it wants companies to follow. They are: safety, security an… [+917 chars]
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When David Perdue applied to be part of a climate comedy program, he felt a little out of his element: I couldnt recall one time Id ever had a conversation with my friends about climate change, said … [+5359 chars]
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If you're one of the 45 million Americans that wear contact lenses, there's a good chance that you're using them in an unhygienic way. Research from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … [+7384 chars]
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More than 1,000 artificial intelligence experts, researchers and backers have joined a call for an immediate pause on the creation of giant AIs for at least six months, so the capabilities and danger… [+4463 chars]
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Hundreds of the UKs leading scientists have urged the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, to halt the licensing of new oil and gas developments in the UK, ahead of his anticipated launch of a revised net ze… [+4838 chars]
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One of the most compelling clues as to the origins of a once-in-a-century pandemic was uploaded without announcement without being noticed for weeks on a scientific database. And then, just as sudden… [+1048 chars]
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Experiencing art can make kids kinder and more empathetic, according to a study published in Psychological Science. The study shows that experiencing awe, which can be brought on by viewing art, can … [+1277 chars]
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Environmental activists, biodiversity experts, politicians and nature lovers are demanding answers over an oil leak in Poole harbour, a site internationally recognised for its ecological importance. … [+3943 chars]
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The Covid contact-tracing app, which was downloaded 31m times during the course of the pandemic, will be wound down later this week. Coming about three years since the first nationwide lockdown, the… [+3152 chars]
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A man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping writer Alice Sebold when she was a Syracuse University student has settled a lawsuit against New York state for $5.5m, h… [+3516 chars]
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The OnePlus 11R doesnt only look similar to the OnePlus 11. It also offers several features that youll find on the more expensive flagship phone, but for less money. The 120Hz AMOLED display, 100-wa… [+10762 chars]
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A reparations rally outside City Hall in San Francisco this month, as supervisors take up a draft reparations proposal. The growing number of local actions has renewed hopes and questions about a nat… [+7676 chars]
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a distinctly caterpillar-like manner. As detailed in the research paper in Science Advances by [Shuang Wu] and c… [+1582 chars]
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The long-feared population bomb may not go off, according to the authors of a new report that estimates that human numbers will peak lower and sooner than previously forecast. The study, commissione… [+4180 chars]
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Do more with less. This has been the governments expectation of every public sector employee since 2010. In education, this has led to stagnant wages and unsustainable workloads, compounded by a puni… [+3708 chars]
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Phillip Washington, the nominee to become administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, testifies before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, at the Capitol in Washingto… [+3674 chars]
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An asteroid dubbed "city killer" for its size will pass harmlessly between the moon and the Earth Saturday evening. The asteroid 2023 DZ2 will pass at a distance of over 100,000 miles, less than hal… [+1280 chars]
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The rise of AI programs like ChatGPT has triggered a tidal wave of ethical handwringing, most prominently from within the industries that it threatens to destroy. After all, just because you can get … [+9668 chars]
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Charles Dunsts aspirational book about how democracies can do a better job of competing with autocracies is bursting with statistics and lots of common sense. The statistics are there to convince us… [+5516 chars]
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Seeing the happy face of my cat, William, at the catflap used to make my heart sink. Usually, a limp body would be protruding from his mouth. Worse still, sometimes the corpse was struggling, resulti… [+3627 chars]
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Blending science fiction and magical realism, environmental catastrophe and family secrets, Francisca Alegrías heady mystery is an ambitious and murkily atmospheric debut. Set in Chile, this Spanish-… [+475 chars]
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In 10m homes throughout Britain this morning, householders will breakfast and then potter out into the garden, starts the Observers 4 July 1965 report on the contemporary gardening boom. Its not a wh… [+1791 chars]
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The Southern Ocean is not somewhere most people choose to spend an hour, let alone a month. Circling the icy continent of Antarctica, it is the planets wildest and most remote ocean. Point Nemo just … [+9866 chars]
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